RAMALLAH, January 24, 2026 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces fully closed the entrances to the villages of Atara and Ein Sinya north of Ramallah on Saturday evening, preventing all movement in and out.
Local sources told WAFA that the forces set up military checkpoints at both entrances and shut them down, causing severe disruption to the movement of residents and vehicles, and detaining some of them.
The two checkpoints serve as main entrances to the city of Ramallah for those coming from the northern West Bank and the villages and towns of the northern countryside of Ramallah.
In a related incident, Israeli forces fired a tear gas canister inside a butcher shop in Birzeit after raiding the town north of Ramallah, with no injuries reported.
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