NORTHERN JORDAN VALLEY, January 21, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Tuesday evening assaulted several youths at military checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley, according to a local activist.

Mutaz Bsharat said that the soldiers tightened restrictions at the al-Hamra checkpoint, blocking the passage of Palestinians from Tammoun town and assaulting them, causing severe traffic congestion and trapping thousands of Palestinian citizens near the checkpoints for long hours.

For a year and a half, the occupation forces have been tightening restrictions at al-Hamra checkpoint, located at a junction linking the various West Bank cities to the Jordan Valley.

Israeli severely restricts Palestinians’ freedom of movement within the occupied West Bank through a complex combination of approximately 500 fixed checkpoints, hundreds of flying checkpoints, settler-only roads, over 200 military bases and various other physical obstructions.

Closures besides to other measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entrench Israel’s 58-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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