BETHLEHEM, Monday, May 15, 2023 (WAFA) – 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.

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