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The West Bank under Israeli military closure for 5th consecutive day

Thursday 23-January-2025

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)

For the fifth consecutive day Thursday, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have been laying a siege on the occupied West Bank, erecting many military checkpoints at the entrances to cities, and closing most of its villages and towns.

This closure coincides with a large-scale Israeli aggression imposed on the city of Jenin and its camp in the northern West Bank, while estimates indicate that the Jenin operation is aimed at starting the implementation of the West Bank annexation plan, through launching brutal attacks by settlers’ gangs against the citizens and their property, lands, and sanctities.

Most of the towns and villages of the West Bank have been witnessing many incursions and suffocating security measures at the military barriers, which led to the disruption of citizens’ movement in occupied Jerusalem, Ramallah and Al-Bireh in central West Bank, in Jenin and its camp, Nablus and Tubas in the northern West Bank, and in the cities of Jericho and Al-Khalil in the southern West Bank.

Israeli strict military measures included the intensification of security procedures and inspections at military barriers, the installation of make-shift barriers, the establishment of sand berms, the closure of some military checkpoints and iron gates installed in the cities and towns of the West Bank, storming homes, and the imposition of fines on a number of owners of homes, vehicles and commercial shops, particularly in occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, the IOF usually conducts tight inspections of citizens’ identities and vehicles, hindering their movement, and badly affecting their daily lives, especially in moving to work and studying, and receiving basic services.

In Jenin, the IOF has been waging an aggression against the city of Jenin and its camp for the third consecutive day, killing so far, 12 people after the martyrdom of two young men in the town of Burqin, west of the city yesterday, and causing a tremendous destruction in the infrastructure.

The IOF imposed a tight siege on the Jenin camp, closed its entrances, and forced the people from Mahyoub Street and some of the camp’s neighborhoods, to leave their homes and forcibly leave the camp, through one road towards the western entrance to the camp, which is known as Wadi Barqin, as Israeli quadcopters kept flying in the camp’s sky, threatening citizens through loudspeakers and dumping leaflets.

Israeli troops installed eye and face recognition devices to identify people, forced West Bankers to pass through them, and arrested a number of young men.

The IOF also launched a large-scale arrest campaign in Jenin camp, which affected a large number of citizens, and tightened security measures at the military checkpoints erected at the entrances and exits of Jenin governorate.

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