In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces invaded several Palestinian communities overnight, injuring a woman and carrying out extensive searches and home invasions in multiple villages south of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
The incidents were part of a wider pattern of military activity and movement restrictions imposed across several areas, including Bethlehem and the Jordan Valley.
Local sources reported that Mariam Sa’id al‑Hamamda sustained bruises and injuries after Israeli soldiers assaulted residents during an invasion of the villages of al‑Mufaqara, at‑Tuwani, and Khallet ad‑Dabe’ in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron.
Soldiers also broke into several homes, including those belonging to Jaber Dababsa and Mahmoud Hussein al‑Hamamda, and searched them extensively. In addition, troops seized a sum of money from the home of Sohaib Mahmoud al‑Hamamda.
Earlier on Tuesday, illegal Israeli colonizers invaded Wadi al‑Hayyat, west of al‑Auja north of Jericho in the Jordan Valley.
The al‑Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights said the colonizers arrived with herds of camels and remained in the vicinity of Palestinian‑owned lands.
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The organization stated that such actions place increasing pressure on Bedouin communities, threatening their stability and daily life.
In Bethlehem, Israeli forces closed the main road serving the western rural area of the governorate late Monday night.
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Media sources said soldiers shut the iron gate in the al‑Shuli area, blocking the primary route connecting the towns of Battir and Nahalin and the villages of Husan and Wadi Fukin. The closure left many residents stranded and unable to reach their homes.
Troops had installed a military roadblock earlier in the same area, stopping vehicles, inspecting identity cards, and searching cars.
Latr on Tuesday evening, Israeli forces erected another military roadblock at the entrance to the western rural area of Bethlehem, again in the al‑Shuli area, where soldiers stopped vehicles, searched them, and examined the identity cards of residents.
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For the past week, Israeli forces have also continued to close several access roads in the village of Husan west of Bethlehem.
Rami Hamamra, head of the village council, said the army has kept the main road in the al‑Matina area—at the village’s eastern entrance—blocked with concrete blocks, in addition to sealing the “Koroum ash‑Sharqa” road with earth mounds and closing a secondary dirt road in the al‑Mashaher area to the west.
Hamamra explained that the ongoing closures have severely disrupted daily movement and commercial activity, particularly in al‑Matina, a vital area for traffic heading toward Nahalin and Wadi Fukin. He noted that the village’s main western entrance has remained completely closed since before October 7, 2023.
In addition, Israeli colonizers began bulldozing Palestinian‑owned land on Tuesday in the town of Battir west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.
Activist Omar al‑Qaisi, who works in the field of resisting the Wall and colonial expansion, said colonizers, accompanied by Israeli forces, started leveling land in the al‑Qusayr and Tuf Abdullah areas to carve out a one‑kilometer colonial road, install infrastructure, and erect electricity poles to extend power to the colonial outpost established there nearly two years ago. Al‑Qaisi added that the two areas encompass more than 100 dunams of land that were seized for the expansion of the outpost and its conversion into the colony known as “Heilits,” noting that Palestinian landowners have been prevented from accessing their property for the past two years.
