The Israeli occupation army announced that the occupied West Bank and Gaza would be closed off for more than three days this week to mark Jewish holidays.
The closure is set to last until Sunday to celebrate the Yom Kippur holiday marking the 10th day of the first Jewish month.
Yom Kippur also known as the Day of Atonement is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jewish people traditionally observe this day with an approximate 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer often spending most of the day in synagogue services.
The Israeli occupation authorities have often sealed the West Bank and tightened the decade-long closure of the Gaza Strip under the pretext of Jewish celebrations preventing movement both in and out of the occupied territory.
Such restrictions have been strongly criticized by rights groups for amounting to collective punishment while blocking Palestinians who work and live in the occupied territories from accessing their jobs and homes exacerbating socio-economic suffering in the territory.
