Full Closure Imposed on West Bank, Crossings Shut Until Saturday
Israeli occupation authorities impose a comprehensive closure on the occupied West Bank and shut crossings from Sunday until Saturday, 3 October, under the pretext of Sukkot.
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Israeli occupation authorities impose a comprehensive closure on the occupied West Bank and shut crossings from Sunday until Saturday, 3 October, under the pretext of Sukkot.
A series of attacks across the West Bank included pepper-spraying a woman near Nablus, storming a home in Umm Safa, uprooting olive trees in Al-Maniya, and assaulting shepherds in the northern Jordan Valley.
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission says the number of checkpoints, closure points and obstacles in the West Bank has risen to 942, with 13 new gates and checkpoints recorded in two months.
The Palestinian information centre "Mata" documented 39 qualitative and popular resistance acts across the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem between 18 and 24 September, leaving one Israeli soldier killed and another seriously wounded.
A settler attack on the village of Rantis, west of Ramallah, at dawn on Friday led to the burning of three vehicles and racist slogans scrawled on residents' homes.
A Palestinian man was shot and injured by a settler in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on Wednesday evening after workers were chased and fired upon.