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Israel blockades Palestinian village

August 4, 2017 at 12:17 pm

Israeli occupying forces have imposed a total lockdown on the occupied West Bank village of Yatta, after a resident was allegedly involved in a stabbing attack against an Israeli.

After the village was raided for a second time yesterday, all roads have been blocked and Palestinians were left unable to enter or exit the area without detailed security checks, according to Ma’an news agency.

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Earlier this week Israeli forces stormed the house of 19-year-old Ismail Ibrahim Abu Aram in Yatta who is accused of stabbing an Israeli man in a supermarket in the city of Yibna.

Israel regularly closes entire Palestinian villages and towns following actual or alleged attacks, a policy which human rights groups have called “collective punishment”.