Since October 7, 2023, the West Bank has been drawn deeper into the crisis unfolding across Palestine. Israel has imposed an increasingly severe military lockdown, effectively cutting off Palestinian towns and villages behind more than 800 metal gates and concrete barriers. Movement is strangled. Families are trapped. Lives are in limbo.

This tightening of control comes as part of a broader escalation. The West Bank now endures near-daily Israeli military raids, with particular intensity in refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarem. Since the beginning of 2025, 137 Palestinians — including 27 children — have been killed in the West Bank. Since the war on Gaza began, the death toll has reached at least 943, according to the United Nations.

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