Jericho city under tight Israeli military siege for 3rd day in a row
Jericho (QNN)- The occupied West Bank city of Jericho and its villages have been under Israeli military siege for the third day in a row as part of Israel’s collective punishment policy against Palestinians.
Since Monday, Israeli occupation forces have closed the two main entrances to Jericho following the shooting operation which was carried out the same day and resulted in the killing of an Israeli settler on a highway near the city. The Israeli military claimed the executor of the operation was a Palestinian man who got away after carrying out the operation.
Local sources reported travel for Palestinians across the land only crossing abroad through Jordan is obstructed.
Palestinians trying to leave the city or enter it and those wanting to travel abroad that have to go through Jericho have not been able to do so and are held for a long time at the military checkpoints erected at the roads accessing the city.
For the second day in a row, the Palestinian city of Jericho, east of the occupied West Bank, remains under tight Israeli siege, with all the entrances to the city blocked by the Israeli occupation army in a collective punishment. pic.twitter.com/JlbENzYaWg
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 28, 2023
The Palestinian city of Jericho, east of the occupied West Bank, remains under tight Israeli siege for the second day, with all the entrances to the city blocked by the Israeli occupation army in a collective punishment. pic.twitter.com/zpyyLwS1G8
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 28, 2023
Two days ago, Israeli occupation forces raided the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp on the southern outskirts of Jericho and conducted searches.
Jericho and the refugee camp were the scenes of a strict siege earlier this month for almost two weeks and a bloody Israeli assault on the refugee camp that left five Palestinians dead.
Monday’s operation occurred after extremist Israeli settlers rampaged through the southern towns of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus and other Palestinian villages near Nablus, killing one Palestinian civilian, and burning dozens of cars and houses in what has been described by some Palestinians and Israeli human rights groups as a “pogrom”.
