Since early 2022, Israel has intensified its military raids and attacks, and campaign of mass arrests, and has increased its utilisation of its shoot-to-kill policy, and collective punishment practices against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including the eastern part of occupied Jerusalem, with the intention of supressing the growing Palestinian armed resistance, particularly in the Governorates of Jenin and Nablus.

Israel’s recurring raids on Palestinian cities, which are an almost daily reality, have severely escalated and intensified since the start of 2022. Throughout that year, 192 Palestinians, including 44 children were killed by the Israeli occupying forces (IOF) and Israeli settlers throughout the occupied Palestinian territory. These attacks are widespread and part of a pattern of collective punishment designed to suppress any form of resistance to Israel’s settler-colonial and apartheid regime.

On 26 January 2023, the IOF carried out its bloodiest military attack on Jenin Refugee Camp since the Second Intifada, killing ten Palestinians and injuring around 20 more. This vicious military attack also targeted various civilian properties and infrastructure within the Camp.

On 22 February 2023, the IOF carried out a four-hour-long military attack on the old city of Nablus, killing ten Palestinians, injuring around a hundred others, and destroying civilian infrastructure.

These deadly military raids and attacks are ongoing and follow a clear pattern where the IOF first enter in civilian vehicles to infiltrate the urban fabric of Palestinian cities, after which civilian homes and infrastructure are forcefully mobilised as part of its military operation.

As of 7 May 2023, the IOF have killed 106 Palestinians throughout the West Bank since the start of the year. Israeli crimes are a consequence of the ongoing impunity sustained by the international community’s inaction to end Israel’s illegal occupation and settler-colonial apartheid regime.

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