Israel ‘negotiates’ while tightening grip on Nablus through more checkpoints

Ma'an's reporter stated that the Israeli forces have re-erected a military checkpoint near the Yitzar junction five kilometers south of the notorious Huwwara checkpoint at the southern entrance of Nablus. According to eyewitnesses, the Israeli soldiers at the new checkpoint are deliberately delaying the passage of Palestinians with intensive searches, despite the fact that they have already been inspected at the Huwwara checkpoint a few minutes away. . . Muhammad Ahmad, 20-year-old university student who studies at an-Najah National University in Nablus told our correspondent that he every day he waits in line at Huwwara for at least three hours before he can pass on his way to university.

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