RAMALLAH, February 20, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Thursday evening fired tear gas toward a Palestinian-registered vehicle at the entrance of Turmusayya town, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to eyewitnesses.

They said that the occupation soldiers manning a checkpoint at the entrance of the town fired tear gas canisters toward a public vehicle, causing the passengers to suffer excessive tear gas inhalation.

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.

Israel severely restricts Palestinians’ freedom of movement within the occupied West Bank through a complex combination of approximately 500 fixed checkpoints, hundreds of flying checkpoints, settler-only roads, over 200 military bases, and various other physical obstructions.

Closures besides other measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entrench Israel’s 58-year-old military occupation of the West Bank and its settler colonial project which it enforces with routine and frequently deadly violence against Palestinians.

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