Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple dawn invasions across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, including Jenin, Qalqilia, Bethlehem, and occupied Jerusalem, where soldiers broke into homes, closed roads, obstructed civilian movement, and abducted a young man during a series of escalating military operations.
In Jenin in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces invaded the village of Al‑Fandaqumiya at dawn and abducted a young man identified as Aisam Suleiman Raba‘.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported that soldiers broke into his home, searched it extensively, and abducted him before withdrawing from the area.
In Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, Israeli forces obstructed the movement of residents east of the city after invading the village of Kafr Laqif from its main entrance and closing the military roadblock at the village’s access point. The closure severely restricted civilian movement.
Earlier at dawn, soldiers invaded the town of Hableh and the nearby villages of Ras Tira and Wadi Ar‑Rasha, where military vehicles roamed the streets, though no abductions were reported.
In a related incident, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the village of Al‑Funduq, east of Qalqilia, and raised Israeli flags along the main road connecting Qalqilia and Nablus in the northern West Bank.
In occupied Jerusalem, Israeli police closed several main streets and intensified measures throughout the city, causing significant disruption to the movement of Palestinian residents. The closures formed part of a broader pattern of restrictions imposed on Palestinian neighborhoods in and around the city.
In Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, Israeli forces invaded the village of Husan, west of the city, and deployed across several neighborhoods.
The head of the village council stated that the soldiers broke into, searched, and photographed the homes of several former political prisoners. No abductions were reported.
The invasion came as Israeli forces continued, for the second consecutive day, to impose heightened military restrictions around the village, closing several main and secondary entrances and severely affecting daily life for residents.
Also in Bethlehem, Israeli forces closed the only remaining entrance to the village of Al‑Jab‘a, southwest of the city. The head of the local council stated that soldiers sealed the road connecting Al‑Jab‘a with the nearby town of Nahalin, cutting off the last accessible route for residents to reach Bethlehem after the army had already closed the main entrance near the Gush Etzion colony bloc on October 7, 2023.
He added that the village has recently been subjected to repeated colonizer attacks, including the burning of homes and vehicles.
These incidents reflect a continued escalation of Israeli military operations and colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, where invasions, home break‑ins, road closures, and movement restrictions have become a daily reality for Palestinian communities.
