QALQILIYA: Israeli occupation forces Tuesday evening set up a checkpoint at the entrance of the Habla town, south of the northern occupied city of Qalqiliya, according to local sources.

They said that the heavily armed soldiers erected a checkpoint at the town entrance, preventing Palestinian vehicles access into and out of the town and causing a traffic congestion.

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 and Information Agency – WAFA