NABLUS, January 12, 2016 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Tuesday notified Palestinian villagers of their intention to install six watchtowers along a main north-south West Bank road, said a local activist.

WAFA reported on Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in northern West Bank, as saying that Israeli forces have notified Palestinian villagers of Sarra, Madama and Burin villages of their plans to set up six military watchtowers along the Ramallah-Nablus road, also marked as Route 60.

The watchtowers would be installed along a seven-kilometer distance from the junction of Sarra village, west of Nablus, all the way to Huwara checkpoint, south of the city, passing by the illegal Israeli settlement of Yizhar.

The Israeli forces’ decision, noted Daghlas, would effectively seize and deny Palestinian villagers access to hundreds of dunums of Palestinian farmland along the said road.

He reportedly added that Israeli forces have started to set up a fence along a 10-kilomter road connecting ‘Awarta and Yanun villages, south of the city, which would effectively seize and render thousands of dunums of farmland off s for Palestinian villagers.

He added that forces also handed stop-construction orders for eight Palestinian houses in Khirbat Al-Marajim, south of the Nablus village of Duma.

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