Incursion follows Israeli defence minister’s order for army to ‘act forcefully’ in opposition to the Palestinian city.
Printed On 27 Dec 2025
Israeli forces have carried out mass arrests and compelled dozens of households from their properties within the city of Qabatiya within the occupied West Financial institution, on the second day of a sweeping army operation ordered by Israel’s defence minister.
Israeli forces sealed off entrances to Qabatiya whereas rounding up and interrogating dozens of residents on Saturday, native sources instructed Al Jazeera. They transformed a number of properties into army interrogation centres, displacing their occupants, based on the Palestinian Wafa information company.
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Israel’s Military Radio reported that the city is topic to a “full curfew”.
The crackdown follows an order by Israeli Protection Minister Israel Katz to “act forcefully … in opposition to the village of Qabatiya”, the place he claims a Palestinian alleged of finishing up a stabbing and car-ramming assault in northern Israel hails from.
In a press release on Friday, Israel’s army mentioned it had deployed troops from a number of divisions, together with border police and members of the Shin Guess safety service, into Qabatiya. It mentioned forces had raided the assault suspect’s residence and had been making ready to demolish it.
Rights teams have lengthy condemned Israel’s follow of demolishing the household properties of Palestinians accused of assaults in opposition to Israelis, describing it as an unlawful type of collective punishment.
Israel’s army claimed its forces would “scan extra places within the village” and “work to arrest wished people and find weapons”.
“There’s a sense of worry amongst individuals on the town,” one resident instructed Al Jazeera. “There are Israeli threats and Israeli incitement.”
The Israeli army raids on Saturday additionally prolonged elsewhere within the occupied West Financial institution, together with to a number of villages surrounding Ramallah and Hebron, Wafa reported. Israeli forces assaulted and arrested eight individuals from the cities of Dura, Abda and Imreish close to Hebron, based on the information company.
Israeli army incursions and assaults throughout the occupied West Financial institution have been a near-daily prevalence throughout Israel’s genocidal struggle on Gaza.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli authorities have arrested practically 21,000 Palestinians. As of December 1, some 9,300 Palestinian prisoners had been in Israeli jails, greater than a 3rd of them detained with out fees.
Palestinian prisoners have been tortured, sexually abused and even killed in custody.
