RAMALLAH, March 6, 2026 (WAFA) – Israeli forces on Friday sealed off the main entrance of al-Tireh village, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to local sources.

They said that the occupation forces conducted a large-scale raid in the village, where the soldiers ransacked many houses, interrogated occupants, and blocked the entrance with earth mounds.

Meanwhile, the occupying forces closed the metal gate at the eastern entrance of Anata town, east of Jerusalem, denying Palestinians entry into and exit out of the town.

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 in January 2025, dismembering and isolating cities and governorates from one another 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 917 fixed and flying checkpoints and gates, including 244 gates 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 59-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.