7/23/2025–|Last update: 02:09 (Mecca time)
A Palestinian child was killed and another was injured as a result of the Israeli occupation forces firing fire in the town of Qabatiya, south of the city of Jenin, in the north of the West Bank, according to medical sources.
The martyrdom of the child Ibrahim Nasr (14 years) came yesterday evening, in light of a continuous field escalation, as the occupation forces continued the widespread storming operations in the cities and towns of the West Bank.
Urgent Local sources: The martyrdom of the child Ibrahim Majid Ali Nasr (14 years old) after being shot by the occupation in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin pic.twitter.com/af2Bab7set
Quds News Network (@qudsn) July 22, 2025
The occupation forces stormed early today, Wednesday, the cities of Nablus and Tulkarm and towns close to them.
In Nablus, the occupation forces imposed a siege on Rafidia Hospital and their mechanisms closed the entrance to the emergency department, and the soldiers searched ambulances.
The incursions also included towns in Jenin, Bethlehem and Hebron.
The occupation forces continue to block and storm the vicinity of Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, and search ambulances. pic.twitter.com/fdm5m9xd2z
Quds News Network (@qudsn) July 22, 2025
In the midst of the military escalation, the Israeli Knesset is scheduled to vote today, Wednesday, a draft resolution that supports the imposition of what he called “Israeli sovereignty” on the West Bank, in a move that actually paved down to include Israel, which represents an explicit challenge to international law and international legitimacy resolutions.
According to the Israeli Channel 12, the draft resolution submitted members of the ruling coalition before the start of the Knesset holiday, and it has explicit support from prominent ministers, including Energy Minister Elie Cohen, who said: “It is time for sovereignty in the West Bank.”
Sovereignty on the West Bank
These moves reflect a political escalation parallel to the field escalation, and a recent conference in the Knesset building in West Jerusalem, last Monday, witnessed a wide participation of ministers and deputies from the right, headed by ministers of the ruling Likud party, with the participation of the former American ambassador to Tel Aviv David Friedman.
The Israeli Minister of Justice Yarif Levin, during his speech at the conference, said that Israel has a “historic opportunity” that should not be missed to implement full sovereignty over “Judea and Samaria”, which is the biblical name that Israel uses to refer to the West Bank.
“We need quick procedures, and we should not give up. Sovereignty must include all settlements,” Levin added.
In turn, Energy Minister Elie Cohen said, “There will be only one country between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, which is the State of Israel, and the sovereignty in the West Bank is a security necessity before it is a political choice,” as he claimed.
The head of the Knesset, Amir Ohana, started the conference by saying, “The Knesset previously believed a majority of 68 members to a statement opposing the establishment of a Palestinian state,” considering that the West Bank constitutes the “defense line” of Israel.
Knesset member Avikhai Buron, one of the draft supporters, said that more than 500,000 settlers live under what he described as “Jordanian law”, and they must be subjected to Israeli law, justifying that “for the security of Israel and the security of our children.”
As for the former American ambassador, Friedman, he expressed his support for this step, stressing that Israel did not start annexation during his term was “one of the most difficult decisions.” He added that sovereignty on the West Bank “is not a whim but a common interest,” as he put it.
Political and field escalation
This step was preceded by an escalation in the official invitations to include the West Bank, where the 14 Likud ministers, and the head of the Knesset, Uhna, on July 2, sent a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he invited him to immediately ratify the inclusion of the West Bank.
The annexation move is a violation of international law and the decisions of the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations, which stipulates the necessity of “ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, including the West Bank and East Jerusalem.”
Over the past months, specifically since the war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, the occupation army and its settlers climbed their attacks in the West Bank, killing more than 1,000 Palestinians and wounding about 7,000, according to Palestinian data.