JENIN, Friday, July 8, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli army today prevented the entry of sheep into the Umm Ar-Rihan and Dhaher al-Malih villages, northwest of Jenin city, according to local sources.
Head of Umm Ar-Rihan Village Council, Majdi Zeid, said that the gun-toting soldiers manning the permanently-staffed checkpoint of Turah, prevented the entry of sheep into the villages for Eid al-Adha.
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 54-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 & Info Agency