NABLUS (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) imposed a hermetic closure on Beita village in southern Nablus since yesterday, Wednesday, after an Israeli soldier was seriously injured in the blast of an explosive device in an IOF military vehicle.
The Beita Municipality said in a statement on Thursday that the IOF closed all entrances leading to the village and stormed the village in big numbers while firing at citizens’ homes and their water tanks.
It added that the IOF soldiers are destroying the village’s infrastructure and raiding citizens homes and savagely searching them while destroying whatever is in their way.
The soldiers burst into the village’s elementary school for girls, confiscated monitoring cameras, and damaged the administration’s building, the municipality statement said.
Farmers incur financial losses due to the closure of the entire village, the municipality pointed out, adding that citizens are also harmed due to their deprivation of foodstuffs.
It called on international and humanitarian institutions to urgently intervene to lift the siege on the village.
