BETHLEHEM, Tuesday, June 11, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today assaulted a Palestinian youth at the Container checkpoint, east of Bethlehem city in the southern occupied West Bank, according to security sources.
They said that the gun-toting soldiers manning the checkpoint stopped and severely beat a young man, identified as a resident of al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, inflicting fractures in his hand.
Israel severely restricts Palestinians’ freedom of movement through a complex combination of over 100 fixed checkpoints, flying checkpoints, settler-only roads and various other physical obstructions.
Closures besides other measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entrench Israel’s 57-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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