According to local reports, occupation forces have deployed reinforcements and military bulldozers to intensify attacks on Palestinian homes, amid preparations to destroy residential properties in the town.
The escalation follows a resistance operation on Friday in the Beisan and Afula areas inside the 1948 occupied territories, in which two Israelis were killed and several others wounded, according to censored Hebrew media reports.
In the aftermath of that operation, carried out by a Palestinian from Qabatiya, Israeli regime forces sharply increased their assaults across the West Bank, with the town placed under particular pressure.
Since Friday, Qabatiya has remained under the boots of occupation forces, as Israeli army radio reported that the town was sealed off and placed under a strict curfew.
Meanwhile, Israeli military radio said the town continues to face a full siege, with Israeli forces operating inside Qabatiya under air force support, while preparing an initial phase to demolish the home of the alleged attacker in Beisan.
Separately, Israeli regime war minister Israel Katz said the army had imposed a curfew and completely encircled Qabatiya as part of its operation, vowing to continue relentless attacks on camps in the northern West Bank and across the territory.
Palestinian sources said Israeli occupation forces have maintained their intense siege since early Saturday, adding that a so-called security assessment is expected later in the day to decide whether the siege will continue or be lifted.
In a related development, the mayor of Qabatiya told Al Jazeera that occupation forces stormed several homes and detained dozens of Palestinians after on-the-spot interrogations.
He added that Israeli forces also destroyed infrastructure and cut electricity to multiple neighborhoods.
The Israeli occupation army said the Beisan operation was carried out by a man identified as Ahmad Abu al-Rab from Qabatiya, adding that forces raided his family home, arrested his father, expelled his relatives and are preparing to demolish the house.
Palestinian sources reported that occupation troops, accompanied by reinforcements and bulldozers, stormed Qabatiya, damaged power lines, erected earth mounds and sealed off the town’s entrances.
They said the assaults included widespread attacks on civilian homes, including that of the family of the Beisan attacker.
Meanwhile, the crackdown came after Hebrew sources reported a series of coordinated resistance operations on Friday in three areas of northern occupied Palestine, which, under Israeli censorship, resulted in the deaths of two settlers and injuries to six others.
Such anti-Israeli operations have expanded significantly across the West Bank since the Israeli regime launched its genocidal war on Gaza, and are described by Palestinians as a response to ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people.
The West Bank has seen a sharp rise in attacks by the Israeli occupation army and settlers in recent months, often coinciding with planting and harvest seasons, in what Palestinians say is a deliberate effort to pressure farmers into abandoning their land to expand settlements.
According to figures from the Palestinian Authority’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers carried out 621 attacks in the West Bank in November alone, targeting Palestinians and their property.
Additionally, since the start of the war on Gaza, Israeli occupation forces and settlers have killed more than 1,103 Palestinians in the West Bank and Al-Quds, wounded around 11,000 others and detained more than 21,000 people.