Qabatiya under fire for the second day.. The occupation imposes a curfew in Jenin

The occupation army continued, on Saturday, its military escalation in the town of Qabatiya south of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, for the second consecutive day, amid widespread deployment of forces and imposition of strict measures that affected the residents and infrastructure.

Palestinian sources reported that occupation forces pushed additional military reinforcements into the town since early morning hours, including vehicles and bulldozers, which spread out in several neighborhoods, while closing main entrances and streets with earthen barriers, leading to near-total paralysis in the movement of citizens.

Occupation forces continue to impose a strict curfew, coinciding with the storming of dozens of homes, tampering with their contents, in addition to carrying out extensive bulldozing and destruction operations that affected streets and infrastructure networks.

In a related context, occupation forces arrested a number of citizens during the raids, including Ahmed Hassan Nazal, Yasser Khuzaymiyya, and the father of the martyr Marouh and the prisoner Mahmoud, after raiding his home in the town.

Occupation forces had arrested, on Friday, the citizen Yunus Abu al-Rab after storming his home in Qabatiya, and took him to an unknown destination, while his family underwent field investigations.

This escalation comes after the town was stormed on Friday with a large military force consisting of about 50 vehicles and several bulldozers, accompanied by the deployment of special forces and snipers on rooftops of homes and buildings, alongside intensive reconnaissance aircraft flights, which created a state of tension and alert among the locals.

The occupation army announced, in a statement issued on Friday, the start of a military operation in Qabatiya claiming to 'thwart terrorist acts,' according to its claim.

This aggression is considered an extension of the collective punishment policy pursued by the occupation against Palestinian towns in the West Bank, which manifests in repeated incursions, arrest operations, and destruction of public and private property.