Israeli Forces Seal Al-Mughayyir Village Entrances East Of Ramallah, Set Up Checkpoint

Israeli forces closed the entrance to the village of Al-Mughayyir, located east of the occupied city of Ramallah, and sealed the two main entrances, preventing residents from entering or exiting and forcing them to take long routes.

“As the Israeli government accelerates its illegal annexation of the occupied West Bank, the army and Israeli settlers are carrying out a methodical harassment of the Palestinian population there”

Agence Media Palestine

WAFA said Al-Mughayyir is situated northeast of Ramallah, covers an area of 26,000 acres, and is flanked by four illegal outposts and an Israeli military camp.

Agence Media Palestine

WAFA also reported that Israeli military forces seize land and prevent construction on 80% of Al-Mughayyir’s lands under the pretext that they lie in Area C, which represents 60% of the occupied West Bank.

On June 16, 2026, WAFA reported that Israeli forces closed the western and only entrance to Al-Mughayyir, set up a military checkpoint at the western entrance, and prevented vehicles from entering or leaving the village.

WAFA added that Israeli forces stormed the village, fired sound bombs, and deployed across several neighborhoods for search and combing operations, with no confirmed reports so far of injuries or detentions.

France Palestine Solidarité said Israel imposed a total military lockdown of the occupied West Bank, closing all checkpoints within hours of the war beginning on Saturday morning and blocking routes between towns and villages with iron barriers and mounds of earth.

The organization reported that soldiers distributed leaflets announcing that the army had imposed a preventive security cordon around the entire Judea-Samaria region, prohibiting travel between different districts of the West Bank until further notice.

France Palestine Solidarité

A Ramallah resident told +972, “It’s impossible to leave,” after saying soldiers stopped, detained, and searched their car and body when they tried to pass a checkpoint by taking the opposite route used to enter the city.

France Palestine Solidarité reported that in Duma, east of Ramallah, soldiers and settlers blocked the only exit since Saturday, and the mayor Hussein Dawabsheh said, “The army prevents workers, children, and the sick from entering and exiting.”

The same account said on Monday residents tried to coordinate the evacuation of an 88-year-old patient, but the army refused, and Dawabsheh added that cooking gas and foodstuffs were also banned from entry.

France Palestine Solidarité said that while Palestinians remained confined, Israeli settlers continued to move freely and intensify attacks on Palestinian communities across Area C, with Yesh Din recording at least 50 incidents of settler violence in 37 different Palestinian communities in the first four days of the war alone.

The organization described the deadliest attack as occurring Monday in the village of Qaryut, near Nablus, after settlers began uprooting olive trees to build a new road near Palestinian homes serving a nearby outpost.

France Palestine Solidarité reported that settlers threw stones and then opened fire, killing two brothers, Muhammad and Fahim Muammar, aged 52 and 48 respectively, and that ambulances could not reach the village and evacuate the wounded for more than an hour due to army roadblocks.

The account quoted village activist and physician Bashar Qaryuti saying, “The army did not intervene until the events were over, then it arrested the Palestinian residents who were on site.”

It added that the settlers later claimed they had been attacked by Palestinians who threw stones at them and that the shooting was an act of self-defense, while the army announced that the shooter was an active reservist and said his weapon had been confiscated and a criminal investigation opened.