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On the morning of July 24, more than 20 Israelis from the Havat Gilad illegal settlement. they attacked Palestinian homes on the eastern edge of Tal, southwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
The settlers initially turned them back, but the settlers soon returned, along with Israeli soldiers. Footage appears to show a Palestinian man grabbing a foreigner’s gun and shooting him to death before soldiers shoot the man, and other videos Israel continues to open fire.
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Four Palestinians from Ramadan’s family were killed in the violence. An Israeli settler and soldier also died.
In recent days, retaliation by the Israeli military and residents has been intense, with the occupied West Bank being bombarded with weapons, violence, demolitions, road closures and burning.
The results are familiar: settlers enter a Palestinian village, violence follows, and Israeli military operations escalate. But with the coalition of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his final months before the elections, this week’s violence was more intense than ever before.
‘Fix the farms’
A few hours after the killings in Tal, Netanyahu ordered a “major military operation”, including demolishing the homes of Palestinian attackers, withdrawing work permits in villages he called “dangerous areas”, strengthening the army and speeding up the “regularization” of settlements and detention centers – which are illegal even under Israeli law.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the response would be an “iron fist”, while National Defense Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said every village in the West Bank would have to share. the fate of Beit Hanoon in Gaza (broken after every Israeli attack). By the end of the week, Israeli public radio reported that 26 army units had been deployed to the West Bank.
Israeli forces returned to attack Tal every night for the next several days, to build about 30 to 50 residents and searched 70 houses. The campaign also took place in Jenin, Tubas, Ramallah, Hebron, Bethlehem, Tulkarem and in East Jerusalem.
In Nablus, about 5km (3 miles) from Tal, Israeli forces overran the hospital, the Wafa news agency reported, arresting doctors and nurses before arresting a patient injured during Tal.
Four new Israeli settlements appeared overnight near Tal and the nearby villages of Awarta, Qusra and Jabal Ubayd, according to Israeli radio and activist Murad Samara.
This adds to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission’s count of 42 new illegal settlements built in the occupied West Bank in the first half of 2026, most of them farmers, who live in the districts of Hebron, Ramallah and Nablus.
At the end of the week, burning streets, roads and mosques
The massacre at Tal was the trigger for the violence that, in those days, destroyed many villages in the West Bank. Israel’s military radio station counted 30 terrorist attacks across the region over the weekend. Haaretz also reported that prominent settlers ignored the military’s pleas to end the crisis.
In Sarra, southwest of Nablus, residents burned six Palestinian homes and five vehicles and beat three villagers, Mayor Numan Abdullah said. When the settlers tried again to destroy the village on Saturday, the Israeli army followed to protect them and fired tear gas, causing Palestinians and journalists to suffer from tear gas.
In Farata, east of Qalqilya, residents set fire to a timber store, two houses and fields, injuring five Palestinians with gunshots, stones and bullets, and emptied the water tank of a humanitarian vehicle that set the fire, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
In the early hours of Sunday, residents set fire to two mosques in a so-called “tree tree” attack (revenge of Israeli residents and patriots against Palestine). One was the al-Rahma mosque under construction in Qusra, where Hebrew graffiti reading “revenge of Benayahu” – an Israeli resident killed in Tal – was spray-painted on the walls, Qusra Mayor Abdul Azim Wadi said. The second was a mosque in the village of Kour near Tulkarem, which was defaced with racist words, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf.
A Palestinian baby who was less than two months old survived an arson attack at his family’s home in Urif, because his grandmother took him out of bed as more than 150 people set fire to the house, relatives told Gaza Now.
In the early hours of July 27, a six-month pregnant woman lost her baby in Awarta after being prevented from passing through a closed gate by soldiers, who found the woman bleeding profusely.
The Israeli army also closed the roads through the northwest of the West Bank, closed the entrance to Sinjil, and set up the Nabi Saleh checkpoint, and closed the gates around Jerusalem, while the settlers set up barriers near Nablus and Ramallah, according to Wafa and their activists.
In Nablus, Ameed Ahmad, the director of the city’s Emergency and Ambulance Center, told Wafa that monitoring restrictions are delaying ambulance transfers to hospitals, including kidney dialysis patients. The result has been that the West Bank has been effectively cordoned off, while Palestinian cities and towns are increasingly isolated.
Land confiscation laws accompanied the violence. Israeli authorities issued new orders this week to uproot olive trees and confiscate land in Jaba, Ajjah and al-Yamoun in Jenin governorate, as well as additional land in Tubas, Wafa reported.
Deaths due to terrorist attacks in 2026 – 18 as of July 20, according to the UN humanitarian organization, OCHA – had already passed 2025 killing four people before Tal was added, besides killed on July 23 two Palestinians in Beit Furik, east of Nablus, who were trying to put out a fire started by people living in Palestinian fields.
The ‘ceasefire’ threat in Gaza has exceeded 1,200
In Gaza, the Health Ministry’s tally of Palestinians killed since the October 2025 “cease fire” reached 1,203 on July 27.
The week’s dead were killed in areas that have been under frequent attacks since the “ceasefire” began:
- A drone strike killed two Palestinians outside the Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia, medical sources told Wafa.
- Special forces destroyed houses in Zeitoun and Yarmouk area of Gaza City, and hit residential areas in Maghazi, Wafa and Gaza Now camps, he said.
- Brigadier General Abdul-Nasser al-Maqadma, described by the Gaza Ministry of Interior as “governor of northern Gaza” and chief of its police force. killed in drone strikes in Sheikh Radwan. Israel says it is a member of the Hamas militant group.
- A drone killed Khaled al-Breem in Khan Younis as he went to buy sweets to celebrate his high school exam results with visiting relatives, according to Quds News Network and Wafa.
- Two people were killed in a separate strike on the home of the Abu al-Rish family in Khan Younis the same day.
- On July 26, a drone fired three missiles at a four-wheel drive near Deir el-Balah, to kill two Hamas security officials.
The “Yellow Line” of Israel, which demarcates the areas under direct Israeli control in Gaza, continued to exceed the lines agreed in October 2025 “cease-fire”.
Israeli forces pushed new concrete blocks into the Abu al-Ajeen neighborhood east of Deir el-Balah in the early hours of July 25, forcing many families to flee, local sources told Wafa and Gaza Now.
Two days later, the “Yellow Line” was moved again along the Salah al-Din road towards Sanfour east of Gaza City, according to Gaza activist Hamza al-Masri.
Satellite images analyzed by the Associated Press showed Israel building an earthen barrier stretching about 23km (14 miles) across the Line – more than half the length of the region – divides Gaza in two. The US-led Peace and Security Central Command, which oversees the “ceasefire”, did not comment, AP reported.
The humanitarian picture in Gaza continued to deteriorate. The World Food Programme, which supports the 70 percent of Gazans who depend on food aid, has warned that it must be cut short without immediate aid.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and UNICEF, said that 67 percent of people, or 1.4 million people, are still facing the problem of not having enough food.
OCHA reported that there were about 4,000 miscarriages in the first half of 2026, more than three times the number of the second half of last year, with serious maternal complications at 82 per 1,000 births, and 57 percent of pregnant women had anemia.
The May closure of the Zikim crossing, the entry point to northern Gaza, has reduced aid vehicles entering the Strip by almost a third.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government has said he agreed to enter in Gaza for the International Stabilization Force (ISF) to follow diplomatic calls to expedite its deployment.
The ISF will work “in full cooperation” with the Israeli army in areas not under Israeli control, an Israeli official said, according to The Times of Israel.
No time has been set for the entry of the ISF, however, which will consist of about 200 people from “friendly countries such as Uganda and Morocco”, according to Reuters.
