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Scene in Jalbun. Published by IMEMC News
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by IMEMC News
April 29, 2024

On Sunday night into the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, the Israeli occupation forces invaded Palestinian villages and towns in the Nablus district and Jenin district, bulldozing Palestinian homes and land, and abducting Palestinians from their homes.

The invading troops bulldozed infrastructure and agricultural lands in the villages of Jalboun and Faqu’a, northeast of Jenin.

Ibrahim Abu al-Rub, head of the Jalboun village council, told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that the Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by a military bulldozer, stormed the village from the northern side, bulldozing agricultural crops, electricity poles, and parts of the main street 60 meters long and 10 meters wide.

Abu Al-Rub added that the Israeli occupation forces continued for the eighth consecutive day to storm the village and turn a house located near the Girls’ Primary School into a military point, belonging to the citizen Rafi Rafiq Abu Al-Rub, pointing out that the irregularity of classes in the village was announced tomorrow, in coordination with the Directorate of Education in Jenin, due to the incursions of the Israeli occupation forces.

He pointed out that a state of fear prevails among citizens as a result of the continuous incursions, which include arrests, raids on homes and the erection of military checkpoints, in addition to the exposure of the village built on its lands, the colony of “Merav”, to bullets from inside the colony towards homes.

The Israeli occupation forces also bulldozed agricultural land in the village of Faqu’a. The head of the village council, Barakat al-Omari, told the Wafa news agency that the Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by a military bulldozer, stormed the village from the eastern side, adjacent to the separation wall and apartheid expansion, bulldozing agricultural land and building a road in it to reach the main street in the village.

In the same context, the Israeli occupying forces raided villages and towns: Ya’bad, Araba, Wasilat al-Dhahr, Bir al-Basha, Jalameh, Arana, Arbona and Deir Ghazaleh in Jenin governorate, and launched search campaigns without reporting any abductions.

Israeli occupation forces stormed, before dawn on Monday, the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus.

According to local sources, the Israeli occupation forces raided the village from several entrances and raided a number of its neighborhoods, without reporting any abductions or confrontations.

The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn on Monday, two young men from the town of Araba, south of Jenin.

Security sources told Wafa that the Israeli occupation forces arrested the two young men, Mustafa Youssef Shaibani, and Jamil Munir Qassem Aqsh Al-Sukhn, after raiding the homes of their relatives and tampering with their contents.

In the same context, the Israeli occupation forces raided the village of Nazlat Zaid in the Ya’bad area, while the occupation forces continued for the ninth consecutive day to storm the village of Jalboun, northeast of Jenin, and seized a house belonging to Rafi Rafiq Abu Al-Rub, located near the Girls’ Primary School, turning it into a military post.

The head of the village council of Jalboun, Ibrahim Abu Al-Rub, told Wafa that it was announced that classes in the village were irregular, except for high school students, due to the incursion of the occupation forces, and fear for the students.

On Monday morning, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their military measures on Tayasir and Hamra military checkpoints in the northern Jordan Valley.

Local sources said that the occupation tightened its military measures on the two checkpoints, especially for those heading to the Jordan Valley, which caused a vehicle crisis at the two checkpoints.

The two checkpoints have been witnessing tightening for months, scrutiny and searches of citizens, separating West Bank cities from the northern Jordan Valley.

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