The Israeli army on Thursday evening set up a makeshift checkpoint at the main entrance to Nabi Saleh town in Ramallah and obstructed the movement of Palestinian citizens.
Eyewitnesses told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint intercepted Palestinian vehicles and embarked on questioning and checking the IDs of passengers especially young men.
They added that the military roadblock caused traffic jams in both directions and provoked drivers to persistently sound their car horns.
Meanwhile the Israeli army distributed circulars threatening to take punitive measures against the residents of Nabi Saleh and other nearby towns if they continued to stage weekly protest marches against Israel’s settlement activities.
Every Friday Palestinian and foreign activists join locals in their protests against land grabs road closures and the separation wall in different West Bank towns and villages.
