Israeli forces set up checkpoint at Beita entrance, prevent Palestinians movement

Nablus (QNN)- Israeli occupation forces on Thursday evening set up a checkpoint at the entrance of Beita village in Nablus in the occupied West Bank, preventing the movement of Palestinians.

Local sources said that Israeli forces in the evening set up a checkpoint at the entrance of Beita and prevented the movement of the Palestinians.

Yesterday, the forces earlier also disrupted the movement of Palestinian vehicles in Beita.

The Israeli forces also detained by Tuesday midnight 11 Palestinians during a night raid on Beita.

Local sources said that clashes have already erupted between the forces and the Palestinian youths.

The occupation authorities evacuated dozens of Israeli settlers on Friday afternoon from the illegal settlement of Evyatar in the occupied West Bank, after a deal was reached between a settler leader and the occupation government of new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

Yossi Dagan, head of settler organisation the Shomron Regional Council, struck a deal with Israel’s defence minister, Benny Gantz, and interior minister Ayelet Shaked, that will turn Evyatar into a religious school and a military base for the Israeli forces.

‘Israel’ will keep about 50 caravan houses settlers installed in May on Palestinian lands belonging to the residents of the occupied West Bank village of Beita, while settlers would “return” to the land when Israeli occupation authorities designate it as “state-owned.”

In early May, a group of Israeli settlers set up caravans on Jabal Sabih, and with the help of Israeli occupation forces have since prevented any Palestinian access to the area.

Within days, settlers installed mobile houses, built roads and raised an Israeli flag over the settlement.

Since then, Beita has witnessed several protests against the new settler outpost on Jabal Sabih, which lies on the southern outskirts of the village and comprises an estimated 30 percent of Beita’s entire land area.

The livelihoods of at least 17 Palestinian families – more than 100 people – are threatened as they depend on harvesting their olives on land they have owned for generations.