BETHLEHEM: Israeli occupation forces Monday evening sealed off the main entrance of Husan village, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to a local source.

Head of Husan Village Council, Rami Hamamreh, said that the occupation troops barged their way into the village while firing concussion bombs and tear gas canisters before closing the village entrance.

Israel severely restricts Palestinians’ freedom of movement through a complex combination of approximately 100 fixed checkpoints, flying checkpoints, colonist-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 and Information Agency – WAFA