JERUSALEM, Monday, October 31, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Monday evening sealed off the entrance to Hizma town, northeast of Jerusalem, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that the heavily armed soldiers closed the northern and southern entrances of the neighborhood, stopped vehicles and inspected passengers’ identity cards.
Israeli severely restricts Palestinians’ freedom of movement through a complex combination of approximately 100 fixed checkpoints, flying checkpoints, settler-only roads, and various other physical obstructions.
Closures besides to other measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entrench Israel’s 55-year-old military occupation of the West Bank and its settler colonial project which it enforces with routine and frequently deadly violence against Palestinians.
