NABLUS, June, 4, 2011 (WAFA) – The Israeli army declared since late Friday night Iraq Burin, a village near Nablus, a closed military area, Saturday said a local activist.

Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of monitoring Israeli settlers activity in the northern West Bank, said that Israeli forces stationed at the village’s entrance are preventing Palestinian vehicles from crossing its lines into the village and allowing people to cross on foot only after checking their identity papers.

He said soldiers would not even allow technicians from the electricity company to enter the village to do maintenance work on power lines.

Daghlas expressed concern that extremist Israeli settlers may attack the village in reprisal against the unarmed Palestinian civilians following Israeli army evacuation of a settlement outpost built on village land without Israeli military approval.

Settlers had regularly attacked Palestinian villagers in Iraq Burin and other villages south of Nablus and set their fields and crops on fire to retaliate against Israeli government removal of outposts built in the West Bank without government approval.

R.Q./M.A.