BETHLEHEM, April 21, 2026 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday evening sealed off the entrances of Husan village, west of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to a local source.

Rami Hamamreh, the head of the Village Council, said that the occupying forces placed cement blocks at the eastern entrance of the village and closed the other one with earth mounds.

He added that the gun-toting soldiers barged their way afterwards into the village, deploying in two streets.

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 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 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.