BETHLEHEM, Saturday, August 17, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Saturday evening set up a checkpoint, west of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to security sources.

They said that the occupation forces erected a checkpoint close to the city of Beit Jala, inspecting Palestinians’ vehicles and checking their identity cards.

Israeli occupation forces severely restrict 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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