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IOF detains journalists at Kafr Qaddum entrance

Friday 3-November-2017

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) detained Friday afternoon a number of journalists at the entrance to Kafr Qaddum town east of Qalqilia and prevented their entry.

The journalists were stopped at the entrance to the town and stripped of their identity cards before being prevented from having access in WAFA photojournalist reported.

The journalists were on their way to cover the weekly anti-settlement protest in the town he added.

Residents of Kafr Qaddum began staging weekly protests in 2011 against land confiscations as well as the closure of the village’s southern road by Israeli forces. The road which has been closed for 14 years is the main route to the nearby city of Nablus the nearest economic center.

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