Occupation forces seal off entrance of Tulkarm governorate village

TULKARM: Israeli occupation forces today sealed off the southern entrance of the Shufa village, southeast of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, according to local sources. They said that the occupation forces used a bulldozer to block the entrance with earth mounds, preventing Palestinian vehicles access into and out of the village. In case the 'Anabta military checkpoint, located at the eastern entrance of Anabta is closed, the already closed southern entrance of Shufa is considered the sole remaining road for Palestinian vehicles to the road leading to the Jabara military checkpoint, south of the governorate. The main entrance of the village has been blocked by the occupation forces since the onset of the Israeli genocidal offensive on the Gaza Strip in October 2023. Israel 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 other m easures, 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