BETHLEHEM, Sunday, October 29, 2023 (WAFA) – Colonial Israeli settlers blocked this morning the main entrance to Wadi Fukin village in the southern West Bank province of Bethlehem, causing significant disruption to the local community, according to local sources.

Ibrahim Al-Haroub, the head of the Wadi Fukin village council, reported that a group of colonial settlers from Beitar Illit, a nearby illegal Israeli settlement built on Palestinian land, placed large stones at the main entrance to the village.

Their aim, he added, was to prevent employees of the Jerusalem Electricity Company from reaching the village's power generator to remove encroachments by these settlers.

The settlers exploited the ongoing lockdown and closure imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities on the Bethlehem Governorate, setting up an unauthorized electric line from the village's generator, Al-Haroub continued.

The closure of the main entrance to the village adds to the long list of provocations and harassments that Palestinians face daily at the hands of colonial Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

These actions are often carried out under the protection of the Israeli military and are a source of constant tension and instability in the region.

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