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Israeli forces installed three new roadblocks around Palestinian homes in the West Bank town of Qusra, entrenching weeks of settler-imposed siege conditions. Residents and rights monitors say the gates deepen restrictions on movement and raise fears of further escalation in an area already under sustained pressure from settlers and the military. The pattern extended more broadly across the West Bank on Friday, when Israeli forces and settlers stormed multiple villages, according to Wafa. Hundreds of settlers, protected by the military, entered a town near Nablus at dawn and converted a house into a military outpost, while settlers elsewhere blocked Palestinians from reaching Friday prayers at local mosques, part of a wider surge in settler-military incursions across the territory.