JENIN (PIC)– Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) imposed at dawn Saturday a tight siege on Barta’a village isolated behind the Apartheid Wall in Jenin preventing people’s movement.
Local sources said that the IOF closed the only entrance to the village at dawn today until further notice preventing the citizens from reaching their workplaces.
The occupation forces told the citizens of their decision to close Barta’a’s entrance under security pretexts the sources added pointing out that several Palestinian vehicles remained stranded on both sides of the barrier.
Barta’a village has been isolated behind the Apartheid Wall since 2003. Its residents have been continuously subjected to humiliating treatment while passing through its sole entrance controlled by IOF soldiers in addition to daily demolition notifications and raids.
Meanwhile IOF arrested on Thursday a student at al-Najah National University from Ya’bad village in Jenin and questioned his colleagues who were with him in a bus on their way home.
Israeli occupation forces chased and stopped the bus after passing through a military checkpoint where they arrested Ramez Ghaleb Abu Bakr 20 and checked all the passengers’ identity cards eyewitnesses said.
The sources pointed out that five other students who were among the passengers were interrogated before taking Ramez to an unknown destination.
More than 30 youths from Ya’bad town were arrested recently as part of an Israeli large arrest campaign to prevent alleged attacks against Israeli settlers and soldiers.
