JENIN, January 28, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Tuesday evening besieged a house in Arraba town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to WAFA correspondent.

She said that the occupying forces barged their way into the town, where the heavily armed soldiers besieged a house, simultaneously while military drones hovered in the sky of the town.

She added that the soldiers eventually detained a young man, identified as Mu‘ath Hashash, whose brothers, Hareth and Hammam, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the city of Jenin on July 5, 2024. Their bodies are still withheld by the occupation authorities.

Israeli occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for "wanted" Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.

These raids, which also take place in areas under the full control of the Palestinian Authority, are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.

Under Israeli military law army commanders have full executive, legislative, and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.

It also comes as part of the massive onslaught Israel has launched in Jenin city and camp since 21 of this month and as the occupation forces have tightened military measures across the occupied West Bank hours after the release of 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of the Gaza ceasefire went into effect, dismembering and isolating cities and governorates one from the other using military gates, barriers, and concrete blocks.

The Israeli military measures are in parallel with ongoing attacks by Israeli colonists across the West Bank to terrorize Palestinians and displace them from their lands to seize them and build illegal Jewish colonies that separate Palestinian communities.

K.F.