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Thursday, November 27, 2025
At least 13 Palestinians said detained by Israel across West Bank since dawn
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Israeli forces have since dawn detained at least 13 Palestinians and one non-Palestinian left-wing activist across the West Bank outside of its northeastern Tubas governorate, where the Shin Bet and IDF commenced a large-scale operation on Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA and left-wing Israeli activists.
WAFA reports five people arrested in the area of Hebron, in the south of the West Bank; four people from the area of Tulkarem in the north; two from the area of Nablus, in the center; and another two, including a 13-year-old boy, from the area of Qalqilya.
Meanwhile, Israeli activists in Masafer Yatta, a cluster of Palestinian hamlets in the South Hebron Hills, say a Palestinian man and a “solidarity activist,” whose nationality is unspecified, were detained in the village of Susya after the IDF declared a closed military zone there.
According to the activists, the IDF and police arrived to seize the car of the Palestinian man, whom the activists identify as the brother of Oscar award-winning filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, co-director of Israeli-Palestinian documentary “No Other Land” about the eviction of Palestinians from the South Hebron Hills.
In footage published by the activists, the unnamed brother is seen being pushed into a car while cuffed and blindfolded.
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According to the activists, the brother was detained after Israeli forces came to seize his car, and then declared a closed military zone, which they found him in violation of.
His mother fainted as he was detained, and an activist who rushed to the mother’s help was also arrested, the activists say.
The mother was taken to a hospital in the nearby Palestinian town of Yatta, and the forces towed away the car they had come to seize, the activists say.
The military does not respond to a request for comment on the footage.
The Times of Israel Community.