On March 24, 2025, Israeli special forces, accompanied by military reinforcements, stormed the city from its eastern and northern entrances, raided the al-Naqqar neighborhood, and surrounded a commercial store in the western part where the slain youth was located.

• They demanded via loudspeakers that the former prisoner Maskawi, who was released at the end of last year after spending 22 months in captivity, surrender. But he decided to resist.

• A day earlier, his father and two uncles were abducted by Israel in an attempt to pressure him into surrendering. Instead, Baraa chose to resist until his final moments.

• The Israeli special forces fired heavy gunfire at the besieged store, followed by firing Energa missiles.

• After failing to kill him in an armed clash that lasted for hours, Israeli special forces sent a suicide drone. The Israeli army has started using suicide drones in the West Bank.

• The body of Maskawi was then seized.

• Security sources said that other citizens were injured. During the raid, and the heavy use of live ammunition, a citizen was injured in the foot by live bullets. He was transferred to Darwish Nazzal Governmental Hospital in the city for treatment, where his injury was described as moderate. Meanwhile, another youth was detained after being injured and taken to an unknown location.