The Israeli army imposes a comprehensive security cordon on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, starting from Tuesday afternoon until an hour has not yet been determined from next Friday, in commemoration of the Palestinian people's catastrophe.
The occupation army said that these measures come after evaluating the security situation, the period that coincides with the commemoration of the so-called dead in the battles of Israel, and what it calls "Independence Day."
The measures include imposing a security cordon on the West Bank and a complete closure of checkpoints and crossings, in addition to closing checkpoints with the Gaza Strip in Beit Hanoun (Erez) and Kerem Shalom.
The Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Aviv Kohavi, had instructed to keep his forces in the West Bank on high alert.
Kohavi ordered the reinforcement of the forces there with 6 other battalions, in addition to the 4 battalions he had previously paid in the framework of the operation that Israel called "breaking waves."
arrests
The occupation army stated that its forces, the General Security Service and the Border Police arrested last night in the West Bank people who it said were accused of involvement in what it described as terrorist operations, indicating that the detainees will be interrogated.
Meanwhile, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - announced yesterday its responsibility for the attack last Thursday in the "Ariel" settlement near Salfit (in the northern West Bank), which resulted in the killing of an Israeli security guard.
Al-Qassam Brigades said - in a statement - that the Salfit operation "comes within a series of responses to the desecration of Al-Aqsa and the aggression against it, and it will not be the last," and described the Salfit attack as "a qualitative operation that confused the enemy's systems."
Hamas reported that its military wing's announcement of the adoption of this operation, which was carried out by two Palestinians, marked the inauguration of a new phase of resistance to the occupation in the West Bank and a victory for Al-Aqsa Mosque.
And Israeli media reported last Friday that a security guard in Ariel settlement was shot dead by Palestinian gunmen, before the occupation army announced the next day the arrest of two Palestinians from Salfit governorate for allegedly carrying out the attack, and seizing weapons with them.
Hebrew sources: "The occupation arrests a 16-year-old Palestinian after he lowered the Israeli flag from a pole in the occupied city of Nazareth." #Palestine pic.twitter.com/L4uJ27IPRV
- Quds News Network (@qudsn) May 3, 2022
On the other hand, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said that the police arrested a Palestinian boy after he lowered two Israeli flags in the city of Nazareth inside the Green Line.
The video clip showed the 16-year-old climbing a lamppost and descending Al Alamein. Later, Israeli intelligence raided his family's home and arrested him.