NABLUS, Israeli forces today sealed off Huwara checkpoint, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources.

They said that the soldiers closed the checkpoint, located at the southern entrance to Nablus, to all vehicles in both directions.

Israeli severely restricts Palestinians’ freedom of movement within the occupied West Bank through a complex combination of approximately 500 fixed checkpoints, hundreds of flying checkpoints, settler-only roads, over 200 military bases 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.

Source: Palestine News & Info Agency