Overview
- Dozens of military vehicles entered Qalandiya before dawn and soldiers carried out home searches, arrested residents, forced at least one family to evacuate, and used bulldozers to demolish a car wash.
- Israel's COGAT framed the operation as aimed at dismantling 'terrorist elements' and stopping weapons trafficking, though reporting notes there are no known recent attacks from Qalandiya cited as a trigger.
- Witnesses and medical sources reported multiple injuries during the raid, including a man hit by a military vehicle, a journalist who was beaten while covering the operation, and a 53-year-old man treated after an alleged assault.
- Camp officials said troops prevented dawn prayers at all mosques and raided the Popular Committee headquarters, actions that humanitarian groups and the UN warn are deepening civilian harm and blocking aid and relief work.
- The operation extends a broader pattern of stepped-up raids, settler attacks, and government moves to legalise outposts that critics say risk escalating violence and increasing displacement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.