Israeli forces confiscate excavator and truck in northern West Bank village

TULKARM: Israeli occupation forces Tuesday evening confiscated an excavator and a truck from the village of Immatin, east of the occupied West Bank city of Qalqiliya, according to local sources. They said that the occupation forces barged their way into the southern part of the village and seized an excavator belonging to the Local Village Council and a privately-owned truck purportedly for operating in Area C, which accounts for 60 percent of the West Bank and falls under full Israeli army control. Meanwhile, the occupation forces set up checkpoints at the entrances of Hajja and Baqat al Hatab villages, east of Qalqiliya, stopping vehicles with Palestinian registration plates and checking passengers' identity cards. Israeli 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 to other measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entr ench 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