HEBRON, July 14, 2026 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday further tightened their closure of the main entrance to the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, according to the town mayor.

Rizq Tamizi said that the occupation forces placed concrete blocks alongside the iron gate they had installed years ago at the town's main entrance, which has remained closed for the past three years.

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 on January 19, 2025. Such restrictions have been further tightened under the pretext of the Israel-Iran war, dismembering and isolating cities and governorates from one another 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 925 fixed and flying checkpoints and gates, colonist-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 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.

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