Israeli forces Monday evening sealed off the entrance to Husan village, west of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to eyewitnesses. They said that the gun-toting soldiers closed the metal gate installed at the town entrance, denying the town residents free access in and out. Israeli severely restricts Palestinians’ freedom of movement through a complex combination of approximately 100 fixed checkpoints, flying checkpoints, settler-only roads and various other physical obstructions. Closures besides to other measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entrench Israel’s 55-year-old military occupation of the West Bank and its settler colonial project which it enforces with routine and frequently deadly violence against Palestinians.
Source: Palestine News & Information Agency