Israeli occupation forces imposed a strict curfew early Saturday morning on the neighborhoods of Jaber, Salayma, and Wadi al‑Haseen in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Human rights activist Aref Jaber stated that soldiers are preventing residents from leaving their homes, or even standing at windows and rooftops, amid heavy military deployment and intermittent incursions into the alleys.
Jaber added that these areas have long suffered from systematic closures, including roads blocked with earth mounds and iron gates, a ban on vehicle movement, and even the welding or chaining shut of doors of homes overlooking the streets.
These measures form part of a deliberate policy to impose a coercive reality on Palestinian residents living in the shadow of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers entrenched inside Hebron.
In related news, Israeli soldiers invaded the city of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, at dawn on Saturday, abducting nine Palestinians, including legislator Jamal at-Tirawi and his sons Mohammad Khaled and Abdul-Hamid, after violently storming and searching their home.
In addition, the soldiers stormed the town of Za’atara, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, earlier Saturday, before assaulting siblings and a woman in their homes.
