The closure entered its third day on Saturday, with an Israeli military spokesperson saying that all movement in or out of the city has been banned “except for humanitarian cases,” Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported.
Israeli forces raided the Tulkarm governorate on December 9, claiming that they were searching for a person whom they accused of wounding Shaul Nir, a former member of the Jewish Underground terror organization, and his wife in a drive-by shooting in the area.