The Israeli settlers stormed on Tuesday afternoon the evacuated settlement Kadim east of Jenin, cut off the road and tried to assault citizens.
Local sources said that settlers closed the main street that connects the city of Jenin with the village of Arrana east of the city, holding banners bearing “closed military zones” in order to prevent the citizens from reaching the area. They also closed the bypass road that links Nazareth Street and the Jalama village, preventing citizens from approaching those areas.
The citizens pointed out that the Israeli settlers started chanting hostile slogans against Arabs under the protection of Israeli military forces.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces and Israeli settlers closed for the second day in a row, the main road and side roads east of the city of Jenin, and declared them closed military zones where they prevented farmers from having access to their lands.
More than 50 settlers protected by a large force of the Israeli army, took position yesterday at the Kadim evacuated settlement east of Jenin, and set up tents, and blocked roads leading to the areas east of the city, and declared them closed military zones.
Eyewitnesses confirmed that the Israeli settlers accompanied by occupation forces were deployed in the mentioned settlement until Tuesday morning.
Local sources confirmed that Israeli soldiers erected more tents within the mentioned settlement, and began to close several roads east of Jenin, and tried to assault farmers and prevented them from reaching their agricultural lands.
