Israeli forces assault Palestinian at northern West Bank checkpoint

TUBAS: Israeli occupation forces Friday evening assaulted a Palestinian at the Tayasir military checkpoint, east of the occupied West Bank city of Tubas, according to the Palestine Prisoner's Society (PPS). Kamal Bani-Odeh, Director of the PPS Office in Tubas, said that the gun-toting Israeli soldiers manning the checkpoint briefly held and physically assaulted a 34-year-old resident of Tubas city while making his way through the checkpoint before eventually releasing him. 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