NABLUS, March 25, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupying forces Tuesday evening opened fire at a Palestinian-licensed vehicle at the al-Muraba’ah military checkpoint, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources.

They said that the occupying soldiers manning the permanently-staffed checkpoint, on the road leading from the villages of Tell and ‘Iraq Burin to Route 60, opened live gunfire at a passenger bus, smashing its windows, but without resulting in any casualties.

The soldiers tightened the movement restrictions on the checkpoint, inspecting Palestinian-licensed vehicles and compelling hundreds of Palestinians to break their fast at the checkpoint while waiting in long queues.

The occupation forces have been tightening military measures across the occupied West Bank since hours after the release of the first batch of Palestinian prisoners as part of the Gaza ceasefire went into effect last January, dismembering and isolating cities and governorates one from the other using military gates, barriers, and concrete blocks.

They have severely restricted Palestinians’ freedom of movement within the occupied West Bank through a complex combination of approximately 898 fixed and flying checkpoints and gates, including 18 gates that have been installed since the start of 2025 and 146 others installed in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, settler-only roads, over 200 military bases, and various other physical obstructions.

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.

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.

K.F.