AL-KHALIL (PIC)– The Israeli occupation army on Friday continued to completely beleaguer for the second day about 120000 Palestinian citizens in Yatta town south of al-Khalil city.
According to municipal chief of the town Mousa Makhamreh all the entrances and roads to the town had been blocked since Thursday with mounds of dirt and rocks.
“The closure of the town’s entrances with dirt mounds would make things more difficult … If they were closed with military barriers there would be a possible chance for negotiation for emergency cases such as the transport of patients” Makhamreh stated in press remarks on Friday.
He said that the Israeli occupation forces had carried out several raids on homes and arrests over the past two days in the town.
Four Israelis were killed and several others were wounded last Wednesday when two residents of the southern West Bank town of Yatta carried out a shooting attack in a popular cafe in Tel Aviv.
On Thursday the Israeli government started implementing sweeping measures to beef up security and restrict movement of Palestinians in what observers say is mass punishment.
Within hours of the attack the Israeli authorities revoked travel permits issued for 83000 Palestinians from both the West Bank and Gaza Strip for the holy month of Ramadan and embarked on sealing off Yatta.
