**Rashash Bedouins ethnically cleansed for the second time since October 7th** Bedouin Palestinians community Rashash was expelled from its original location in the south Jordan Valley in late 2023. Now they have been expelled again, from their encampment near Duma (Nablus Governorate). The few remaining individuals, as well as Israeli and international human rights advocates are under continued assault from settlers. A 35-year-old Palestinian man, Thamin Khalil Reda Dawabsheh, was shot dead by Israeli settlers in an attack in Duma on Augustus 13, 2025. **On Augustus 15,** Illegal Israeli settlers established a new settlement outpost only 400 meters from the Shakara Bedouin community, east of Duma town, south of Nablus city, according to Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights. **On Augustus 17,** Al-Baydar Organization noted that bulldozing work took place in the evening at the new outpost, which was established Friday. Meanwhile, illegal settlers pelted Palestinian vehicles with stones near the settlement of Shavei Shomron on the road linking Jenin and Nablus, causing damage to some cars, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. **On Augustus 29,** in the evening, a group of Israeli settlers has attacked a Bedouin gathering in the town of Duma in the occupied West Bank, about 25km (15.5 miles) southeast of Nablus, assaulting one man, smashing his phone and carrying out acts of vandalism, according to the Wafa news agency. **On August 30th**, according to the ONG Herd of Justice, "The settlers come 10-12 times per day, destroy property, attack people", says Adele Shoko, one of the activists. Along with two other activists, Adele was physically assaulted by the settlers on August 30th. Three settlers on an ATV surrounded her, stole her phone, pushed her to the ground and dragged her over the rocks with the ATV for several meters. After the attack, the settlers remained in the area, invading repeatedly every 20 minutes, further damaging the fence and water tanks. When the activists tried evacuating Adele to provide medical assistance, the settlers blocked the activist car with their ATV for half an hour. Occupation police and army were called six times, but refused to arrive on the scene. Later that day, another activist was choked, pushed and scratched by a settler. During the night, the settlers attacked once more, assaulting activists again. Multiple people were injured. **Broader context:** The village of Duma itself is being surrounded by settler outposts, with the goal of launching further terror attacks against the community. Urgent coverage and international intervention is needed.

On August 16, 2025, dozen of settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, attacked the village of Al Mughayyir, Al Bireh, Ramallah, burning vehicles and caravans, and attacking a number of homes. Israeli occupation forces stormed the village and fired live ammunition at Abu Aliya, wounding him in the back, before assaulting him, according to village council head Amin Abu Aliya. He was subsequently taken to the hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries. The Ministry of Health announced on Saturday evening that 18-year-old Hamdan Musa Mohammed Abu Alia succumbed to his wounds. **Palestinian political leader Dr. Mustafa Barghouti statement:** “The Israeli army killed in cold blood tonight the first aid provider Hamdan Abu Alia, 18, in Al-Mughayir village in the Ramallah district — for no reason. Earlier today, the village was attacked by terrorist settlers who burned cars and caravans.”

Al-Mughayyir, Khirbet Abu Falah, Turmuss Ayya and “Marj Si’” plain area in the eastern and northeastern areas of Ramallah have been repeatedly targeted by settler attacks in recent months. These attacks have resulted in the killing of several residents, the injury of others, and widespread destruction, including the burning of homes, facilities, and agricultural lands, along with spraying racist graffiti on walls and various other assaults. **According to Naboth's Vinyards**: Since October 7, that checkpoint has been closed to the village’s residents, preventing them from reaching and cultivating thousands of dunams of agricultural and grazing land east of the village. In the first weeks of the war, shepherd families living in Khirbet Jab’it east of the village, were expelled. Their expulsion enabled settlers from the isolated and extremely violent outpost of “Malachei HaShalom,” together with settlers from the Shiloh area to seize control of the entire area between the villages of al-Mughayyir and Duma, which we have also written about frequently in recent months. About two months ago, settlers in the area escalated their campaign — uprooting olive trees and burning agricultural land east of al-Mughayyir. In addition, an illegal outpost was established above the village’s eastern entrance, which has been closed since October 7. The aim of all these actions is to seize the lands from which Palestinians have been expelled and convert them into settler farmland. Such activity has already been taking place in recent weeks." ### Recent timeline On Augustus 2025, Palestinians resident confronts several major attacks on lands and farmers' properties between Khirbet Abu Falah and Turmus Ayya. **On Augustus 7, 2025:** dozens of armed settlers stormed the western outskirts of the village of Al-Mughayyir, specifically the “Marj Si’” plain area between Al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah. Unarmed residents confronted the assailants. Israeli forces also stormed the village to protect the settlers, leading to clashes. During the confrontation, soldiers fired stun grenades and toxic gas canisters at the residents, though no injuries were reported. **On Augustus 14,** Israeli forces convert a Palestinian building in Military outpost in the village of Turmus Ayya. **On Augustus 15,** during the night, Israeli forces fired flares in the sky over the town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah. Settlers had stormed the Marj Si’a plain, specifically cutting down a number of olive trees **On Augustus 16,** Israeli settlers stormed the Marj Si’ah plain, located between Al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah. During this raid, settlers assaulted Palestinian residents and confronted locals after earlier attacks in the same area that resulted in the cutting down of olive trees belonging to Atef Hamayel the previous day. Israeli settlers torched Abdel Rahim Awad’s farm in Turmus Ayya. In the face of Jewish settlers' rampage, residents confront a massive attack on farmers' lands and property between Khirbet Abu Falah and Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah. Two settlers were injured when residents confronted their attack in the Marj Sa'i area, between the towns of Abu Falah and Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah. **On Augustus 17,** in the morning, Israeli Settlers deployed on the outskirts of Turmus Ayya town. They continu to attack Palestinian residents’ vehicles, pelting them with stones at the entrance of the town of Turmus Ayya. ### Siege of Al-Mughayyir (Aug. 21–24, 2025): **On Augustus 21,** A settler’s unverified claim of attack was used as pretext for a coordinated settler-army campaign against Al-Mughayyir, resulting in mass raids, a total siege, uprooting of centuries-old olive groves, arrests, property destruction, and the isolation of the entire community. There is an escalation when the ATV of two Israeli settlers from the Gal Yosef farm illegal outpost was accidented near the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir. They pretend that Palestinian opened fire and caused their vehicle to overturn before fleeing when his gun jammed. One shepherd was lightly injured in the head and evacuated to the hospital. A settler claimed he was shot and beaten in the Eastern Plains of Al-Mughayyir (land recently taken from Palestinian owners). This allegation appears to have been used as justification for escalating settler and military action against the Palestinian village. Settlers spread around the village from 8:30 a.m., inciting violence online and circulating threats, including a leaflet with a bulldozer calling to demolish the village. According to B.M., the Israeli friends are calling on social media to "Zarbivy Mughayyir" and organize a pogrom on the village, which has already been suffering unrelenting Zionist terror as it is. They uprooted thousands of olive trees, vandalized Palestinian cars, and continued land destruction during the day. Israeli forces stormed the village of Al-Mughayyir around 9:00 a.m., enforcing a full closure and curfew. The area, including neighboring villages, was completely encircled as the military claimed to be "searching for the attacker." Over 300 soldiers were deployed during the operation. Troops raided homes, arresting residents and converting several houses into military outposts. Footage emerged of soldiers throwing rocks at Palestinian vehicles. The raids were marked by property destruction, theft, and violent searches. Dozens of men were detained, beaten, and taken into custody. The army announced the siege would continue for at least three days. Palestinian vehicles were confiscated, and villagers were threatened with further demolitions and arrests unless they cooperated. Residents remain trapped under siege conditions, without access to medical care, humanitarian aid, or basic logistical support. Israeli forces prevented movement to and from the village for the duration of the four-day operation, with the exception of a few humanitarian cases who managed to leave on foot as ambulances were prevented from reaching them. One of those cases was a woman in labour, who was walking to reach an ambulance near the western entrance to the village and had tear gas cannisters fired in her direction by Israeli forces stationed there, but she was not injured. Community sources reported that Drones dropped tear gas on homes; tear gas and sound bombs were fired directly BY TROOPS at houses. Israeli forces fired sound cannisters, including inside homes, some of which were searched more than once. During one of the house raids, Israeli forces beat two children, causing fractures and bruises in the upper parts of their bodies, and they were transferred to a medical clinic inside the village for treatment. Israeli forces injuring 11 other Palestinians by tear gas inhalation, including five women and six children, one of them an infant. Throughout the operation, Israeli forces detained 14 Palestinians, including a woman, a child, and the head of the village council. Several of those detained were physically assaulted. As of 27 August, four remained in Israeli custody, while the others were released, including the woman and the child. According to UNOCHA report, during the operation, Israeli forces-imposed a near-total closure by blocking the village’s western entrance, where a partial (intermittently staffed) checkpoint is installed, from the direction of Khirbet Abu Falah village. The other main (eastern) entrance to Al Mughayyir, off Road 458 (the ‘Allon Road’), has been closed with a road gate since mid-2023 **During the siege :** Journalists were expelled around 1:20 p.m. onAugustus 21, preventing coverage. Residents were locked in homes; both entrances blocked. 10 people arrested, including five brothers and village council head Amin Abu Alia. Graffiti included Stars of David and initials “MTA” and “MH” (Maccabi Tel Aviv & Maccabi Haifa). The head of the village council, Amin Abu Alia, surrendered after soldiers detained his son: “They linked the siege of the village to my surrender.” The council member Marzouk Abu Naim reported raids, stun grenades, ransacking, and theft of money and gold : “Their excuse is that a settler was attacked. People lost their trees — ancient trees, uprooted far from the Alon Road [where the shooting happened]. Homes were raided and searched. People were shocked by the number of soldiers and the level of hatred. They ransacked dozens of homes, threw stun grenades. They did this to my house while my wife and I were inside. [In other homes,] they even looted money and gold.” Abd al-Latif Abu Alya (55) lost 350 olive trees; vowed to replant despite displacement attempts. Rabeah Abu Naim said soldiers beat his brother and arrested the council head at settlers’ demand. **On Augustus 22**, during the night and the day after, 6 excavators and at least one D9 uprooted all the hundred years old olive trees in the plain near Al-Maghayyir Abu Falah and Turmus Ayya. At least 8,000 m² of olive groves were already destroyed. Ambulances were blocked from reaching the wounded Despite the destruction, residents vowed to remain on their land. Calls were issued to Palestinian institutions, humanitarian organizations, and the international community for urgent intervention and protection. ISM (International Solidarity Movement) urged global media and human rights bodies to denounce the violence and act against what it calls crimes against humanity. The IDF Central Command commander Avi Bluth declared in a video that the IDF is focusing its efforts on the village of Al-Mughayyir, in Binyamin, following the attack that came from there the day before, during which an Israeli shepherd was lightly wounded. According to the commander, the purpose of the operation in the village is to capture the terrorist and to deter the entire village from carrying out attacks: “Every village and every enemy must know that if they carry out an attack against the residents, they will pay a heavy price, they will undergo a curfew, they will undergo encirclement, and they will undergo shaping operations — so that all are deterred.” **“Order on Security Instructions regarding the Adoption of Security Means No. 25/25 (Judea and Samaria, 5785-2025).”:** (see attachment) The Brig. Gen. Yaki Dolf or Major. Gen. Avi Bluth (commanders of the IDF Judea and Samaria Division) published a the Military Order (Judea & Samaria, August 2025)No. 25/25 (2025 – 5785) under his legal and security authority. Applies to an area of 296.8 dunams of land (as marked in red on the attached map), covering several parcels in the eastern and western plains, including parts of Abu Hanoun, Al-Nuqra, Shanshal, Abu Khamisa, and Al-Rifda. To adopt security measures in the designated area in order to protect people’s lives and ensure public safety. Measures include installing physical barriers and temporary security structures. Landowners will receive copies of the order and the attached map. The order will also be published at the Coordination and Liaison Office (DCO). The DCO will set and notify the schedule for enforcement. Right of Objection: Any person affected may submit an objection within 7 days of publication to the Legal Advisor for the area through the DCO. Validity: The order entered into force on 21 August 2025 (27 Av 5785) and remains valid according to applicable law. According to +972, Yesh Din and ACRI demanded a criminal investigation of Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs Bluth for alleged war crimes and collective punishment.They cited international law violations and the lack of appeal rights for residents. The IDF spokesperson defended Bluth, calling criticism “inappropriate” and insisting actions were lawful. However, uprooting entire groves deepened suspicions of collective punishment. MK Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism) praised the uprooting: “Finally the IDF is acting as it should.” Elisha Yered, settler activist, openly framed the actions as collective punishment and urged wider use across villages. **On 1st Septemeber 2025 Naboth's Vineyard (Dror Etkes / Kerem Navot) stated that:** "In practice, the work was carried out jointly by the army and local settlers who own heavy machinery. The uprooting operations lasted for several days. Following mapping we conducted on the ground, we can now say that the actual area where the army and settlers uprooted trees stands at about 620 dunams — more than double the area included in the order. In addition, settlers have begun — and continue — to carve an entirely new road, with the aim of seizing thousands of dunams between al-Mughayyir and the extremely violent outposts east of the Shiloh settlement. We assume that along this illegal road, settlers will soon establish yet another outpost, whose purpose will be to further tighten the noose around the village of al-Mughayyir. Work at the site has been ongoing for over a week and a half, leaving no doubt that Apartheid General Bluth and his subordinate, Col. ‘Anan Fares - recently appointed commander of the Binyamin Brigade, under whose responsibility this area falls both were, and remain, fully aware of what is happening on the ground: settlers, under army protection, are uprooting olive trees on hundreds of dunams not covered by the military order." "The area designated for “exposure” is marked in red. It is immediately clear that whoever drew this order on the map did so in full coordination with the settlers themselves: the order does not cover lands that settlers have already seized in recent months. To sum it up: settlers are systematically seizing thousands of dunams of land belonging to al-Mughayyir’s residents through ongoing violent attacks. Instead of protecting Palestinian property and prosecuting the invaders, the army issues an order that clears the way for settlers to take hundreds more dunams of olive orchards. This is the reality that reigns in the West Bank: Israel, through its army, fights, kills, wounds, and subjugates millions of Palestinians in order to preserve it. But for the Apartheid General, Avi Bluth, it all feels natural. It is the reality he grew up in, and the only one he knows." According to Dror Etkes (Kerem Navot): eight outposts now surround Al-Mughayyir, including Adei Ad (legalized 2022, recognized 2025). **On September 5, 2025**, In the village of al-Mughayyir, three residents were arrested: Watan Abdulbasit Abu Alia (22 years old), Mohammed Raiq Abu Naim (19 years old) and Yousri Moussa Abu Alia (38 years old), after house searches. Israeli forces then settled in the western plain of the village, preventing residents from accessing their land, while settlers, protected by the army, proceeded to steal wood.

On August 14, 2025, Israeli settlers launched a violent attack on the Palestinian village of Atara, located north of Ramallah in the central West Bank. The assailants hurled Molotov cocktails at Palestinian homes and vehicles, setting them ablaze and causing significant property damage. Israeli settlers on Thursday reestablished an illegal outpost on a tract of land in the town of Atara. They set up tents at the site of Jabal Khirbat Tarfirn near the town entrance after it was torn down by the occupation forces. On Monday, dozens of settlers leveled the land and transported mobile homes to the site, under heavy protection from Israeli occupation forces, to displace the indigenous population and seize their lands for new settler-colonial projects. Covering an area of 2,00 dunams, Jabal Khirbat Tarfim is an archaeological site frequented by illegal settlers as part of a colonial settlement policy aimed at displacing the Palestinian population.

On Augustus 13, Israeli settlers shot and killed a Palestinian resident of the village of Duma in the Nablus governorate. According to testimonies coming from the town, settlers chased a boy, who managed to evade them, reached home and told his family. Several residents went out and got closer to the settlers, who fired at them, knowing full well that they would not be arrested or questioned. This year, an illegal outpost has been established near the entrance to Duma. According to the Kerem Navot organization, recently, a road about 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) long has been carved out from the outpost toward the northeast. The group estimates that the road is intended for the establishment of another illegal outpost. According to Haaretz, clashes broke out between Palestinians and settlers who arrived in the village of Duma to prepare the land ahead of the establishment of this illegal outpost. An off-duty IDF soldier fatally shot a 35-year-old Palestinian.The soldier who fired the shots was providing security for the construction, though not as part of an official military mission.. Two Israelis, including an off-duty soldier who shot the Palestinian man, were wounded The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its crews treated a critically wounded man following the attack. According to the Ministry of Health, this 35-year-old resident, Thameen Khalil Reda Dawabsheh, was succumbed to his wounds Furthermore, the head of the Duma Village Council, Suleiman Dawabsheh, confirmed that Israeli settlers targeted local residents and opened fire at them in the southern part of the village, amid land-leveling activities that have been taking place in the area for days. **The IDF [spin](https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjxznx9dex):** "IDF says dozens of assailants threw rocks at an off-duty soldier and a civilian, prompting the soldier to fire warning shots; Palestinian attackers then tried to seize his weapon; The soldier initially fired warning shots into the air, the military said, but after the rock-throwing continued, he fired “to remove the threat,” hitting one of the assailants. The military added that the attackers then attempted to seize the soldier’s weapon. Additional troops were dispatched to the scene, and the incident ended shortly afterward. Both the soldier and the civilian sustained light injuries from the rock-throwing and received medical treatment on site." **According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission:** 10 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers since the beginning of this year, bringing the death toll from colonist gunfire to 30 since October 7, 2023. This is possible because of the constant impunity for the perpetrators in West Bank. There is no law, no justice and no judge. The Jewish supremacists, the settlers, are rioting and murdering every week without any consequences. **Name of the martyr:** Thameen Khalil Reda Dawabsheh, 35.

Following annoucement by the Israeli cabinet of a plan to occupy Gaza City, Israel started a campaign of violent bombing and shelling of Gaza City around 10 pm on August 10, 2025. While the bombing covered all of areas of the governorate, ground reports indicated more intensity at the eastern areas, namely Shujaiya, Tuffah, Zaytoun. Shortly after the start of the bombardment, Israel perpetrated a targeted assassination of renowned journalist Anas Al-Sharif along with the rest of Al-Jazeera crew in Gaza City. As of August 14, the bombardment and shelling **destroyed 320 buildings in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood alone**, leading to even more displacement in the governorate that was already sheltering over half of the displaced Gaza population. - Local journalists reported that Israel employed **remotely-operated tanks laden with explosives** to destroy homes around the Ali Mosque and the Al-Maslaba area, causing massive explosions of buildings that reverberate throughout the length of the Gaza Strip. - In addition, Israeli has been carrying out excavation and **bulldozing** work in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood the area starting from the Al-Baraasi area extending to the vicinity of the Hassan al-Banna Mosque, Ali Mosque, and Al-Musallaba area. - **Airstrikes** targeted **houses** and residential buildings in Al-Sabra and Al-Zaytoun neighborhoods, focusing on **tall** buildings. On August 14, the IDF dropped leaflets on the Al-Sabra neighborhood ordering all people to displace to Al-Mawasi. On August 16, after an intense week of bombardment, the IDF announced **launching an offensive** on the area carried out by the 99th Division with the Nahal Infantry Brigade and 7th Armored Brigade. The IDF also announced allowing the entry of tents to southern Gaza in a bid to encourage the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza. On the night of August 18, Israeli troops advanced in Al-Sabra neighborhood under a barrage of artillery, gunfire and airstrikes. This led to further displacement multiple people being killed including 1. Islam Al-Koumi (journalist) 2. Islam Al-Koumi's son 3. Maryam Al-Ghazi 4. Hala Nabil Abu Ajwa 5. Adam Al-Madhoun On August 19, Israel's assault **extended north** to Jabalia Al-Nazla and Jabalia al-Balad where families remained besieged and unable to move out of fear of the intense bombing and shelling. The extension allowed the IDF to exert more **"pressure" on civilians in Gaza City from the north and south** as troops continued advancing and being only a few kilometeres apart from the center of Gaza City. On August 21, the IDF issued **evacuation orders to hospitals in Gaza City**, ordering the staff to **transfer to the Gaza European Hospital** in Khan Younis, which Israel carpet bombed two months prior. The Director General of the Ministry of Health publicly denounced and [challenged](https://x.com/Dr_Muneer1/status/1958561570297913499) the threats: "* What is being proposed is not merely a request to evacuate hospitals, but rather a field execution order against patients and the wounded who cannot be transferred outside Gaza City amid the collapse of the healthcare system and a hospital bed occupancy rate of 300%. We will not kill our patients and wounded, nor will we accept depriving more than one million people of their right to treatment. We hold the international community and UN institutions fully responsible for protecting patients and ensuring the continuation of medical services as an inherent human right.*" The eve of **August 24 was particularly violent** as, in addition to airstrikes and artillery shelling, a series of four detonations at midnight purported to utilize explosive armored vehicles **shook the Gaza Strip** with reverberations felt in Central Gaza and Khan Younis. Some of the detonations were reportedly carried out between Jabalia camp and Jabalia al-Balad in North Gaza.   In the immediate aftermath, journalists and civilians on the ground reported a strong, foul odor spreading across the northern aeas of Gaza City, namely Sheikh Radwan area, Jabalia al-Nazla, and the al-Jalaa roundabout. The odors were causing residents to experiencie a burning sensation in the nose and difficulty breathing. Medical sources reported a significant increase in patients with chest and respiratory system issues in the aftermath. At least [11 houses](https://archive.is/RPAlK) were struck in Jabalia al-Nazla. The violent nightly bombing became a daiy occurence. In addition, footage shot by locals indicated that the IDF intensified the **use of drones to drop explosive charges on homes and schools**, in a bid to terrorize the population and force their displacement. On August 26, people in Jabalia Al-Nazla found the remains of an Israeli APC similar to those used previously in Rafah and the North Gaza invasion as explosive-laden tanks. This led further credence to locals' reports of those weapons being employed in the large scale detonations in Gaza City and the areas at its northern edge. By the end of August, most of the areas at the **northern edge of Gaza City** (Jabalia al-Nazla, Jabalia al-Balad, Saftawi, Abu Iskandar) were **ethnically cleansed** due to the constant shelling and drone terror. Locals reported that the assault was relentless that people were **killed and maimed even during their displacement**, as evidenced by footage. The displacement from Jabalia al-Balad, Jabalia al-Nazla, and the Saftawi areas of North Gaza led to the **closure of the main source of drinking water** (Yassin Company – ETA) for one milliong people in northern Gaza. On September 2, 2025, around 12:30pm the IDF issued a **forced displacement order** to all 1 million people displaced in Gaza City to go to the **"humanitarian zone" of Al-Mawasi**. Less than an 10 minutes later, the IDF struck a tent in **Al-Mawasi killing at least 5 children**. As of September 3, 2025, over 1,100 Palestinians were killed and 6,008 injured in this Israeli onslaught. **September 5, 2025:** Starting midnight on September 5, there was a marked escalation of Israel's massacres of families in their apartments, homes and tents. At least **19 Palestinians were killed in 9 airstrikes predawn**. On the morning of the same day, Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz [announced](https://archive.is/Pz2iV) opening the "Gates of Hell" on Gaza City, forcing the displacement of people and initiating a **campaign** of bombardment and demolition of **high-rise residential buildings**, starting by the **Mushtaha Tower** in western Gaza City.  Most of these **high-rise buildings were surrounded by displacement camps and thus densely populated**. Israel's airstrikes destroyed not only the buildings themselves, but tents and the small communities that had formed there, exacerbating conditions to push the displaced populatyion to be further displaced. The tower was completely destroyed by 2 airstrikes that targeted its foundations. Hours later, the IDF ordered the evacuation of the **Makka Tower**, a building sheltering dozens of families in its 60 plus apartments. **September 6:** The IDF dropped leaflets and officially announced on social media forced displacement orders for all people in Gaza City to move south to Al-Mawasi, describing it as a "humanitarian zone".  Moments later, the IDF order the evacuation of the **Roya and Al-Sousi Tower residential buildings**. The latter was previously bombed and was surrounded by a large number of tents for displaced families. **September 7:** The Government Media office announced that around 30,000 Palestinians were forcibly dsplaced from Gaza City as a result of the Israeli assault. However, over **12,000 displaced** had returned to northern Gaza as they did not find space and basic necessities in Al-Mawasi and central Gaza. The IDF continued its campaign to push **displacement through bombing** notably by ordering an immediate evacuation of **shelters at and around Al-Jazeera Sports Club**. The latter housed displacement camps due to its location between Al-Amal Camp 1, Al-Amal Camp 2, Al-Mustaqbal Shelter Center, Al-Israa Camp, and Al-Yarmouk Camp. In addition to hundreds of tents in the surrounding streets, and a large number of homes that sheltered a significant number of displaced people. Moments later, Israel bombed and destroyed Al-Roya residential building. **September 8:** Violent detonations resumed since midnight coupled with a new pattern of attacks: locals reported drones dropping explosive charges on top of houses then detonating them simultaneously, resulting large scaleexplosions sweeping areas of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood. Israel's Defense Minister took to social media again [boasting](https://archive.is/0B6yz) of launching a "*hurricane that will strike the skies of Gaza [City]*"  The IDF threatened and bombed Al-Roya Commercial Tower in western Gaza City, which previously housed several press and human rights institutions including the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Zaman Radio, and the National News Agency.  Around 10 pm, Israel bombed and destroyed Al-Salam Tower near the Municipality Park. Within **3 days**, Israel had destroyed 50 towers in Gaza City, including 5 major ones that had over **209 apartments** and sheltered over **4,000 people now homeless**.   **September 9:** The IDF re-issued announcement ordering displacement of all people in Gaza City to Al-Mawasi. The orders led to protest by the local population refusing to be displaced any further amid a complete lack of safety assurances elsewhere in the Strip. Israeli aristrikes on residential buildings continued with a focus on homes in the northwestern areas of the governorate. The airstrikes targeted the following buildings: Al-Sa'ati Tower, Al-Attar, Al-Shandaghli, Abu Al-Hasin, Al-Jawhara, Al-Jaleel, and Meema residential buildings. **September 10:** The IDF issued an evacuation order for Harmoony Tower, mistakenly identified by the IDF as Tayiba Tower 2, and completely destroyed it hours later. **September 11:** Morning airstrikes focused on houses in **Al-Shati** camp in western Gaza City including those of the following families: Jadallah, Sammour, Basal, Al-Souri, Al-Hajj Muhammad, Abu Ajwa, Al-Mashharawi, Hammouda, Taha, Abu al-Kheir, Matariya, Al-Mana'a, Al-Jamal. In the evening, the IDF ordered **international institutions to evacuate their headquarters and offices** in Gaza City. Among them are the UNRWA clinic in Al-Shati and Al-Nasr, where displaced people are sheltering. **September 12:** Israel's onslaught on Al-Shati camp continued in the early morning starting with an airstrike on the Abu Asi school which sheltered hundreds of displaced Palestinians. The attacks continued to target [over a dozen homes and shelters](https://x.com/Snd_pal/status/1966595289671749731) across c**entral and western Gaza City** including the houses of the Al-Waha, Mohanna, Abu Dan, Balaha Lubbad, Barakat, Issa, Abu Rasas, Helou, and Abdul-Latif families, in addition to the prayer hall of the White Mosque and the Al-Quds Bank building. Atr night, Israel ordered the **evacuation** of areas where displaced people were sheltering in **Al-Rimal** neighborhood. **September 13:** The IDF ordered the evacuation of several schools and shelters and bombed them including Al-Noor Tower and **3 schools**: Al-Sitta Soura, Shuhaibar and Al-Alya. In the evening, Israel perpetrated strikes on displaced people in at least three locations in western Gaza City notably with an airstrike on dispalcement tents at the Palestine Stadium. **September 14:** At dawn, Al-Shifa hospital came under intense Israeli gunfire which preceded an airstrike on a car in the vicinity. The IDF's assault focused on the western part of Gaza City, specially the **Rimal neighborhood**. The IDF bombed and destroyed several residential buildings and the tents around them including the **towers Al-Kawthar, Muhanna and Al-Jundi Al-Majhoul** (the Unknown Soldier) after ordering their evacuation. The IDF also ordered the evacuation of the female student affairs building for at the **Islamic University of Gaza** ahead of bombing it with three bombs. As the bombing seemed to have stopped, people **returned to retrieve their belongings, only for Israel to bomb them again** causing a large massacre. Israel bombed the university a third time around 5:45 pm. Close to midnight, a series of Israeli strikes targeted displacement tents and family homes killing around 20 people from 3 families. **September 15:** Continuing the focus on the Rimal neighborhood, the IDF bombed and destroyed **Al-Ghifari Tower** after ordering its evacuation. Al-Ghifari Tower was one of Gaza City's tallest buildings which housed international and press institutions. **September 16:** Israel officially announced launching a ground invasion to occupy Gaza City. The announcement was preceded by an exceptionally violent night of bombardment across the governorate coupled with intense gunfire from helicopters.  The **night bombardments massacred around 70 people from 3 families** spread between the Sheikh Radwan, Daraj and Sabra neighborhoods, spurring a more displacement. In addition, Israel bombed a **dozen houses, Al-Aybaki mosque** and struck the upper floor of the **Rantisi children's hospital**. **September 17:** Israel's strikes targetred multiple family homes across Gaza City. Israeli media released footage showing Israeli tanks reached Al Jalaa round about and entered Al Jalaa St. coming from Al Saftwai Street to the north. Thus the ground invasion reached the Sheikh Radwan quarter. **September 18:** The Gaza Government Media office published updated figures about the scale of massacres since Israel launched its onslaught on Gaza City. The death toll reached **3,542 martyrs** acrosss the Gaza Strip, 56% of which in northern Gaza and **44% in the central and southern areas that Israel had been insisting are safe areas** for people to go to. - North Gaza and Gaza City: 1,984 killed - Central and southern Gaza: 1,558 killed **September 22:** Israel's continued assault on Gaza City rendered Al-Rantisi hospital and the Eye hospital our of service. Later in the evening, the IDF ordered the evacuation of the Jordanian field hospital in Tal al-Hawa. As such, the Jordanian Amer Forces decided to relocate the field hospital to Khan Younis.

Around 11:20 pm, an Israeli airstrike targeted the tent o Al-Jazeera's staff at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, killing 6 journalists including renowned Al-Jazeera correspondents Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qriqea. The massacre also injured journalists Ahmad Al-Harazin, Mohammad Sobh, and Mohammad Qayta. The IDF assassinated them after a long campaign of incitement— and murder—against Palestinians journalists, particularly Anas whom it accused repeatedly and without evidence of being an agent of Hamas. The assassination came on the anniversary of one of Israel's most gruesome massacres at Al-Tabi'in school where Anas had documented some of his most poignant reporting. Shortly after the latter, the IDF's arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee incited against Anas, and continued to do so several times throughout the next 12 months. The IDF put Anas on a kill-list of journalists and continued inciting against Anas after his reporting on the devastating effects of Israel's starvation policy starting late July. Former US army EOD export Trevor Ball noted that the damage pattern seen in the aftermath is "consistent with an Israeli Mikholit bomb. They've (IDF) also used the Mikholit is similar strikes on media tents in the past." **Names of the martyrs:** 1. Anas Al-Sharif "Abu Salah" (correspondent for Al Jazeera) 2. Mohammed Qriqea "Abu Zain" (correspondent for Al Jazeera) 3. Ibrahim Daher "Abu Karim" (Al Jazeera cameraman and volunteer paramedic) 4. Mohammad Nofal "Abu Yahya" (Al Jazeera crew assistant photojournalist) 5. Momen Aliwa (cameraman) 6. Muhammad Al-Khalidi (freelance journalist)

**Israeli army expels the Bedouin community of Ein Ayoub, near Deir Ammar, West Bank** ***** The Ein Ayoub Bedouin community (Ramallah, near Deir Ammar) is an "Area C" community threatened with forcible transfer by both Israeli settlers and the Israeli army: — 19 households comprising 102 members. Extensive Israeli settler groundworks have already been completed around Ein Ayoub- adjacent to community structures and grazing lands, significantly restricting movement and access. These ground works have effectively enabled Israeli settler infrastructure to surround the community’s perimeter — bypass roads, settlements, including *Na’aleh* and *Nahliel*, and settlement outposts including a recently established one in the Al Reysan area. This new outpost is linked to the Neria outpost, commonly referred to as *‘Neria’s farm’*, which is linked to **Neria Ben Pazi** who has been sanctioned by multiple governments, due to his alleged involvement in violent attacks and forced displacement of Palestinians. ### Timeline of recent events ***** **August 8, 2025** – Jewish settlers raided the community, terrorizing residents and warning them they had 24 hours to leave the area. According to reports from the community, on 8 August at approximately 19:00, armed settlers, accompanied by Israeli forces, entered the community and assaulted residents. Settlers verbally ordered the community to leave within 24 hours, while Israeli forces told residents they had one week to vacate. All threats were verbal only, with no written orders, creating legal uncertainty and heightening fear. We understand that the Palestinian Authority is supporting legal aid in this community. **August 9, 2025** – On the morning, 9 August, approximately 30 armed settlers arrived near the community and remain present, maintaining pressure and threats. Residents moved their sheep out at night to avoid harm or confiscation. Palestinian homes were torched by violent Israeli settlers. **August 11, 2025** – After residents had already resigned themselves to displacement by settler militias and were preparing to leave their homes within the next couple of days, soldiers arrived in the village late at night. They declared the village a "closed military zone" and ordered the residents to leave immediately. When locals firmly refused to leave during the night, the soldiers “allowed” them to stay until 1 p.m., in two separate tents — one for men, the other for women — on the condition that, while in the village, no one could leave the tents or move between them. After granting this “permission,” the soldiers forced one of the men to state on camera that no one had attempted to expel them **Testimony of the activits account Dror Etkes** *I have been going around the West Bank for over 20 years, and I can testify that the connection between IDF and the settlers has always been a malignant block of poison, but it has never been as close to the level of toxicity as it is under the current Central Command chief, Avi Balut [He replaced Major General Yehuda Fox as the central commander chief.]. This is the order, according to which the soldiers on the spot expelled the Bedouins from their homes last night. Take note of the name: “Peace Farm Area.” The IDF spokesperson claims it was a mistake by the soldiers on the ground: There is no “farm” there, nor any “peace.” There is also no legal basis for establishing a “farm” since there is no “state land” there. What there is, is an outpost from which the violence in the area began — but the Orwellian name reveals the settlers’ plans. The poisonous fingerprints of Smotrich and his people in the Ministry of Defense are as clear as can be. The closure order signed by Inan Fares, the newly appointed commander of the Binyamin Brigade, [Anan is the commander chief of the Binyamin brigade. He currently holds the rank of lieutenant colonel] is not a “mistake,” as the IDF spokesperson claims, but the most distilled and authentic expression of how the settlers operate the army — however and whenever they want. The soldiers expelled the Palestinians yesterday because that is what they were told they should do.* **According to UNOCHA**, this is the ninth community to be fully displaced in the Ramallah governorate since January 2023, following recurrent attacks by Israeli settlers.

On Augustus 5, 2025, Israeli bulldozers began the demolition of a school under construction in the village of Al-Aqaba east of Tubas. Director of Education in Tubas, Azmi Bsharat, said Israeli forces, accompanied by bulldozers, stormed the village of Al-Aqaba and proceeded to demolish the school, which was funded by the French Agency. The occupation had issued a stop-work order against the school several months ago and had also seized heavy machinery that was being used at the site. Despite plans being submitted to the Civil Administration and assurances a court ruling would be awaited, the demolition proceeded on August 5. The school was intended to be a two-storey building, covering an area of 704 square meters, and constructed on a five-dunum plot of land. **Report from UNOCAH:** On 5 August, Israeli authorities demolished a donor-funded under-construction school intended to serve approximately 90 students in Al ‘Aqaba village, in Tubas governorate. Previously on 24 June 2024, a stop-work order was issued against the project, and a cement mixer and bulldozer were confiscated and held for about a month by Israeli forces. In late August 2024, the Al ‘Aqaba village council submitted the project plans and requests for permits to the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) and received a response stating that the demolition would not proceed until a decision is made by the court. Nonetheless, the ICA proceeded with the demolition on 5 August 2025. The planned school was intended to replace the existing governmental village school, which operates under poor conditions, lacking adequate infrastructure and essential facilities. **France Foreign Ministry statement:** On Augustus 15, *“France strongly condemns the destruction by Israeli authorities of a school under construction in the northern West Bank, funded by the French Development Agency in cooperation with the European Union. We are demanding accountability from the Israeli authorities for this demolition”* The ministry said it is the second demolition of a French-funded project in the West Bank, after the Al-Bustan center in East Jerusalem : *“The continuation of the settlement policy constitutes a serious violation of international law and threatens the prospect of a two-state solution,”*  *Palestinian students hold flags and placards on the rubble of their destroyed aqaba mixed basic school protesting against its demolition by Israeli forces in the village of Aqaba. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images*

The Jahalin Bedouin residents of Deir Hajla, West Bank, who face severe humanitarian conditions with no water, electricity, or basic needs after Israeli forces demolished their entire community on August 3, 2025. At 9 a.m., troops with two bulldozers surrounded the area, destroyed homes, and assaulted residents, 31 people, including 20 children. One man suffered facial fractures and was hospitalized. Soldiers forced deletion of all phone recordings under threat of smashing devices. The residents were forcibly displaced to the outskirts of Jericho, now living in dire conditions on private land with nothing.