Israeli occupation forces Friday evening erected checkpoints at the entrances of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, according to local sources.

They said that the occupation forces set up two checkpoints, one at the southern entrance of the city and another as the northwestern entrance of the city, stopping Palestinian-registered vehicles and checking passengers’ identity cards.

Israel severely restricts 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.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA