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Friday, December 26, 2025
IDF commences operation in Qabatiya following ramming-stabbing attack in northern Israel
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The IDF says that Israeli forces entered Qabatiya after a Palestinian from the northern West Bank town killed two people and wounded two others in northern Israel today.
Israeli forces raid the assailant’s home and arrest his father.
The IDF says that its elite Duvdevan unit and a special paratroopers’ unit are taking part in the operation alongside the police’s Metzada special operations unit.
#صور| قوات الاحتلال تواصل فرض حصار على بلدة قباطية جنوب جنين، وتستمر باقتحامها وإغلاق مداخلها وعدد من الشوارع الداخلية فيها. pic.twitter.com/fuVclGaoqI
— شبكة فلسطين للحوار (@paldf) December 26, 2025
According to Palestinian media, military bulldozers were setting up roadblocks inside Qabatiya as troops and other military vehicles patrolled the streets and snipers deployed on some rooftops. The military is also reportedly blocking the entrances to the town of some 25,000.
According to the army, IDF troops and Shin Bet officers “are mapping out the area in preparation for the demolition of the terrorist’s home.”
“At this time, forces continue to search for additional suspects in the village and are working to arrest wanted individuals and locate weapons,” the IDF adds.
In a statement posted on X, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin says that troops are “now operating in the village of Qabatiya to thwart terrorism and raiding the home of the terrorist who carried out the attack earlier today.”
The Times of Israel Community.