Wednesday, June 14, 2023 (WAFA) – For the second day in a row, the Israeli occupation forces continued today to seal off all access roads to the town of Yabad, southwest of the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin, and shut down the two nearby military checkpoints, according to Palestinian security and local sources.

They told WAFA that in addition to sealing off the access roads, the soldiers raided several homes and shops in the town and seized surveillance cameras.

The closure of the roads disrupted sitting for the matriculation exams, the tawjihi, for 360 high school students in Yabad, forcing the Education Ministry to open halls in other towns to accommodate students from outside Yabad prevented by soldiers from reaching the town to sit for the exams, according to Salam Taher, head of the Education Directorate in Jenin.

Yabad mayor Amjad Atatra said that after closing all access roads, people were not able to enter or leave the town and the tawjihi students sitting for vocational or industrial exams were not able to leave the town to sit for these exams in the nearby city of Jenin.

Confrontations between youths and soldiers broke out last night in the town without anyone being hurt, said the sources.

Earlier yesterday, shots were fired in two separate incidents at Israeli settlers and soldiers in the area, injuring four soldiers and one settler, according to Israeli reports.

M.K.