JERUSALEM, September 22, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces on Monday evening sealed off the entrance of al-Ram town, north of the occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem, according local sources.

They said the occupying soldiers closed the northern entrance of the town, denying the inhabitants free access into and out of the town and causing traffic congestion.

Meanwhile, infantry forces deployed at the nearby checkpoint of Jaba’, forcing Palestinians to take lengthy and convoluted detours to reach their destination or houses.

The occupation forces have been tightening military measures across the occupied West Bank since hours after the release of the first batch of Palestinian prisoners as part of the Gaza ceasefire went into effect in January, dismembering and isolating cities and governorates from one another using military gates, barriers, and concrete blocks.

They have severely restricted Palestinians’ freedom of movement within the occupied West Bank through a complex combination of approximately 898 fixed and flying checkpoints and gates, including 18 gates that have been installed since the start of 2025 and 146 others installed in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, settler-only roads, over 200 military bases, and various other physical obstructions.

The Israeli military measures are in parallel with ongoing attacks by Israeli colonists across the West Bank to terrorize Palestinians and displace them from their lands to seize them and build illegal Jewish colonies that separate Palestinian communities.

Closures, besides 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.

K.F.