Israeli forces imposed a lockdown on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, their second day of operations there after a local resident killed two people in Israel.
“The IDF [Israeli army] is operating forcefully against terror hubs in the village of Qabatiya … accompanied by a lockdown and a complete cordon around the locality,” Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement published by his office on Saturday.
“We will continue to pursue an uncompromising offensive policy against Palestinian terror,” he added.
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Bilal Hunaisha, a resident of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the northern West Bank, said the town “is being subjected to collective punishment by the Israeli occupation”.
“As you can see, they blocked the way to my house and I am no longer able to move around,” he told Agence France-Presse, pointing to a pile of rubble obstructing the road.
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In the attack on Friday, a 34-year-old Palestinian man killed two people in northern Israel.