In its daily pre-dawn invasion of various parts of the West Bank, the Israeli military invaded northern, central, and southern parts of the occupied West Bank.
Israeli troops abducted, before dawn on Thursday, six young men, including two brothers, during their raid into the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah.
The Palestinian WAFA news agency reported that the Israeli occupation forces abducted the two brothers, Zaid and Muhammad Najah al-Far, the young man Mahmoud Muhammad Awawdeh, Jamil Majeed al-Far, Amer Thalji Farhat, and the young man Thaer Nassar, who is from the village of Talfit, south of Nablus, while he was at his workplace in Deir Dibwan.
Israeli occupation forces also stormed, before dawn on Thursday, the villages of Baqa al-Hatab and Hajja, east of Qalqilya.
Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces stormed Baqa al-Hatab with a number of vehicles, and raided several homes, including the home of citizen Nidal Abdul Ghani. They also stormed Hajjah, without any abductions being reported.
Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday evening forcibly evicted a family from their home and turned it into a military barrack in the village of Anin, west of Jenin city.
Yasser Yassin (61 years old) told the Palestinian WAFA News agency that the Israeli occupation forces stormed his house, forced him and his family, consisting of his wife and son, to leave their home by force, and turned it into a military barracks, noting that he was forced to seek refuge in the house of his married daughter in the village.
Local sources also reported to WAFA that the Israeli occupation forces also forcibly removed the families of Abdul Salam Ahmed Zaid and his brother, Muhammad, from their home, a two-storey building in the village of Nazlat Sheikh Zaid, southwest of Jenin. The soldiers then turned the home into a military post.
The Israeli occupation forces set up a military roadblock on Wednesday at the entrance to the western countryside of Bethlehem governorate.
WAFA news reported that the Israeli occupation forces set up a military roadblock at the entrance to “Aqabat Hasna” leading to Battir, Nahalin, Husan and Wadi Fukin, where vehicles are stopped, searched and citizens’ identities are checked, which led to a traffic jam.
Since last night, the Israeli occupation forces have tightened their closure on the Bethlehem Governorate, by closing the western entrance to Beit Jala and the southern entrance to the town of Al-Khader, which has cast a negative shadow on the daily lives of citizens.
Israeli occupation forces abducted a young man from Al-Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas, on Wednesday.
The director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) in Tubas, Kamal Bani Odeh, told WAFA that the Israeli occupation forces abducted the young man, Sultan Nimer Suleiman Madi (26 years old), from Al-Far’a camp, while he was passing through the “Al-Murabba’a” military roadblock, south of Nablus.
The Israeli occupation forces tightened their military measures at most of the entrances and exits of the governorates in the West Bank on Wednesday.
Local sources reported to WAFA that the Israeli occupation has tightened its measures around Ramallah, Al-Biereh, Jerusalem, Nablus, Hebron, Jericho, and Tubas, as the occupation closed the Ein Siniya and Atara military roadblock, and continued to close the northern entrance to the city of Al-Biereh, while the surroundings of the city of Jerusalem witnessed stifling traffic crises after occupation soldiers at the “Jabaa” military roadblock north of Jerusalem searched vehicles leaving Ramallah towards the south, while the occupation closed the “Hamra” military roadblock east of Nablus in both directions connecting Nablus, Jericho and the Jordan Valley.
The sources indicated that the occupation closed the areas of Ras al-Joura, al-Fahs Dam and al-Nashash in the Hebron Governorate, while the northern entrance to Jericho remains closed.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, preventing all Muslim worshipers from entering it, and closed the entire area around it, to allow groups of Israeli paramilitary colonizers into the holy site.
The Al-Murabba’a and Awarta military roadblocks around the city of Nablus also witnessed a severe traffic crisis caused by the occupation soldiers’ careful inspection of vehicles.
The occupation forces closed the Tayasir military roadblock east of Tubas city to the movement of citizens in both directions, returned their vehicles and prevented them from reaching their places of work in the northern Jordan Valley.
In the same context, the Director of Education, Azmi Balawneh, said that about 130 teachers were unable to reach the schools in the northern Jordan Valley, and about 800 male and female students, some of whom are from distant camps, did not attend school because the education buses did not arrive to transport them to school due to the occupation’s measures.
The occupation forces also closed the Atouf gate, southeast of Tubas, impeding the movement of farmers.
The occupation forces continued to close the Anabta military roadblock east of Tulkarem, for the fourth consecutive day.
Local sources told WAFA that the occupation forces closed the checkpoint through its iron gates and prevented the movement of vehicles, especially since this checkpoint is used by vehicles coming from the West Bank governorates to reach or exit Tulkarem, which forced drivers to take side dirt roads that take long hours.
It is noteworthy that the occupation forces have tightened their military measures at the checkpoint since the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, and have closed it for long periods that extended for months, before reopening it recently, after installing an iron gate, for specific hours and intermittent periods subject to the moods of the occupation soldiers stationed at the checkpoint.
