JERICHO, Monday, April 24, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces continues for the third consecutive day to seal off all main and secondary entrances leading to Jericho city, pursuing Palestinian vehicles and preventing residents from leaving the city, said security sources.

Sources told WAFA that Israeli forces continues to seal off all entrances with flying checkpoints, chasing after Palestinian-registered vehicles at the southern part of the city and preventing them from leaving.

Forces reportedly seized a Palestinian-owned vehicle and briefly detained and interrogated its driver before releasing him.

Military vehicles were also deployed in residents’ agricultural lands to the north of Jericho to ambush Palestinian commuters searching for alternative roads to reach their destinations.

Earlier today, the governor of Jericho confirmed the death of a Palestinian youth who succumbed to the critical wounds he sustained by Israeli gunfire during a military incursion into Aqbet Jaber,  in the city of Jericho, at dawn today.

T.R.