Israeli forces Friday evening beefed up restrictions at the checkpoints at the outskirts of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to local and security sources. They said that the occupation forces tightened their restrictions at Huwara checkpoint, south of the city, Beit Furik checkpoint, east of the city, Sabastiya checkpoint, west of the city, as well as at Asira ash-Shamaliya checkpoint, north of the city, forcing passengers to wait in long queues of vehicles and checking their identity cards. 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 (WAFA)