Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across several areas of the occupied West Bank at dawn on Thursday, breaking into homes, ransacking property, and abducting at least fifteen Palestinians, while detaining and interrogating many others in field conditions.
In Nablus, in northern West Bank, military vehicles stormed several neighborhoods, including al‑Makhfiyya, where soldiers broke into homes, searched them, and seized personal belongings before abducting Saher Hamdan.
The soldiers also invaded the nearby town of Zeita Jamma’in, southwest of Nablus, where additional homes were searched and vandalized.
In Qalqilia, in northeastern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Mohammad Sa’sa’ after invading his home and ransacking it.
For the fifth consecutive day, Israeli forces on Thursday kept the main western entrance to the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilia, closed, further restricting movement and deepening the hardship faced by residents.
At dawn, soldiers sealed the western entrance — the Azzun–Ezbet at‑Tabeeb Road — with earth mounds, even though it is the only alternative route to the town’s northern main entrance, which has been shut with an iron gate for more than two years following the start of the war on Gaza.
The continued closure has severely disrupted daily life and obstructed the movement of thousands of residents and workers.
In the Bethlehem district, Israeli forces abducted four Palestinians: Mohammad Yousef Mohammad al‑Abed from Khalayel al‑Louz east of the city, and Mu’tasim Ghazi Qneis along with his brothers Malek and Mohammad from Aida refugee camp.
Soldiers also confiscated a family‑owned vehicle transport truck during the invasion and closed the entrances to Harmala, east of Bethlehem, with earth mounds.
In Hebron, in southern West Bank, Israeli forces conducted one of the largest invasions of the day, storming and violently searching homes and multiple neighborhoods and abducting eight Palestinians: Atta Abu Ramouz, Yaqoub al‑Za’arir, Adel Awni Abu Mayyala, Fadi al‑Natsha, Omar Abdul‑Rauf Abu Sneina, Hatem Qfeisha, and Amjad Ahmad Sahlab.
Also, the soldiers installed new metal gates near the Osama Bin Munqidh School in the southern area of Hebron.
Residents said soldiers placed the gates at key access points leading to the school, further restricting movement in a part of the city already heavily controlled by the army and surrounded by Israeli military roadblocks and colony infrastructure.
In the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, soldiers stormed numerous homes, detained several residents, and subjected them to field interrogation inside a house the army occupied and converted into a military post, before abducting Mohammad al‑Najjar.
In the Ramallah area, in central West Bank, the army abducted Moath Hannoun after invading his home in the village of al‑Mazra’a al‑Gharbiyya, north of the city.
In occupied Jerusalem, soldiers abducted former political prisoner Ezzedine Attoun from the town of Sur Baher, southwest of the city.
Meanwhile, bulldozers and heavy machinery continued leveling Palestinian land to carve out a new colonial road linking illegal Israeli colonies north of Jerusalem and east of Ramallah with the city of Jerusalem, part of an ongoing expansion of settlement infrastructure.
In the northern Jordan Valley, Israeli forces detained several journalists, teachers, officials, and activists in Khirbet Ibziq, following attacks by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers on Palestinian land, residents, and international peace activists.
In related news, Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian home in the town of Beit Awwa, west of Hebron, after invading and sealing off the surrounding area
These invasions come amid a sharp escalation in Israeli military operations across the occupied West Bank, where daily abductions, home invasions, and land seizures have intensified since October 2023.
