Israeli forces installed an iron gate at an entrance of the village of Janata today, southeast of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.
Palestinian security sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces installed a large iron gate at the eastern entrance of Janata, without providing and reason for the measure.
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Local activists said that the installation of the gate “aims to restrict the life of Palestinians by closing the gate at any time Israel wants to.”
Palestinians are routinely subjected to Israeli measures which restrict their day-to-day activity and stop them from accessing their properties and farmland and which separate them from their families.