The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday prevented Palestinian citizens for the second consecutive day from staying in or reaching Salama hamlet west of al-Khalil.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the IOF on Friday declared the hamlet a closed military zone.
Several citizens from the nearby Palestinian town of Tarqumiyah returned for the second time on Saturday to the hamlet and embarked on cleaning its yards and planting its lands to protect it from being annexed for settlement activity but Israeli soldiers showed up and forced them to leave according to the sources.
An 82-year-old citizen suffered from inhaling tear gas when Israeli forces stormed the hamlet and attacked them.
Last month hordes of Jewish settlers stormed the hamlet several times in an attempt to annex it to their illegal settlement which is called Telem.
