Quds News Network

Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- Israeli occupation forces have abducted dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, while imposing a strict blockade. On Thursday, local sources confirmed, Israeli soldiers raided shops and cafés in the city center, abducting everyone inside as well as people in their vehicles, and forced them to march in long lines toward the road leading to the Khadouri military checkpoint to the west. They brought in additional military vehicles, including a heavy bulldozer, raided homes and businesses, and forced owners to close them. Soldiers also seized several surveillance cameras and restricted the movement of residents in the area. Earlier in the day, the Israeli occupation imposed a tight blockade on Tulkarm, shutting the metal gates at its southern and eastern entrances and preventing vehicles from passing. Live fire was also directed at residents and cars in the western neighborhood. Ambulances were denied access to the area, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. This attack comes as Tulkarm and its two refugee camps, Tulkarm and Nur Shams, enter the 228th consecutive day under Israeli assault, marked by daily raids, detentions, and severe restrictions on civilians and their property. This came as the Israeli military claimed that two soldiers were lightly wounded in an explosion in Tulkarm on Thursday, adding that it had sent Israeli forces to encircle the city.

In Tulkarm, the occupation stages its theater of humiliation. dozens of young men seized at random, chained shoulder-to-shoulder, paraded through the streets under the rifles of around 20 soldiers.

Collective punishment dressed as “security,” designed to break spirit but instead… pic.twitter.com/o4dhMICFI2
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) September 11, 2025

"It looks like a collective punishment and a kind of show of force," a Tulkarm resident said.

The Israeli army is carrying out mass detentions of Palestinians in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/u5LuswaXtq
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) September 11, 2025

According to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) on Thursday, over 19,000 Palestinians from the West Bank have been arrested by Israeli forces since the start of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023. The groups added that the recent Israeli mass arrests in Tulkarm within just a few hours are “part of the same widespread campaign of detentions that has been ongoing in the Gaza Strip since the war began.” “These scenes echo numerous past incidents in which civilians were subjected to field interrogations and collective arrests, often accompanied by systematic abuse and humiliation,” they added.

Israeli Forces Abduct Dozens of Palestinians in West Bank’s Tulkarm

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