The Israeli occupation army has been closing an agricultural road northwest of Salfit in the central West Bank for several days and refuses to open it.
According to local farmers the Israeli army blocked the only agricultural road in the northern area which extends from the northern entrance of Salfit to Bir Haris area with an iron gate and prevented all local residents from using the road.
The farmers appealed to human rights groups to intervene and pressure the Israeli authorities to reopen the road.
Researcher Khaled al-Maali specialist in settlement affairs said that this agricultural road serves dozens of farmers from Salfit and the towns of Haris and Kifl Haris.
Maali affirmed that Israel’s closure of the road aims to expel the farmers from their lands as part of a current plant to expand the settlement of Ariel adding that the Israeli occupation authority already started to carry out bulldozing activities in the northern and western mountainous areas of Salfit.
