The occupied West Bank city of Jericho remains under Israeli military siege for the second day in a row, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Temporary military checkpoints have been set up by the Israeli occupation army at all the main entrances to Jericho since Saturday, resulting in traffic jams and unusually long queues of vehicles.
Palestinians trying to leave or enter the city have not been able to do so and are held for a long time at the military checkpoints erected by the Israeli army.
TODAY: Unprecedented traffic jams with long queues of vehicles on the third day of Eid Al-Fitr as a result of Israel's blocking of the entrances to the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/0iOb5Dmimt
— Wafa News Agency – English (@WAFANewsEnglish) April 23, 2023
Moreover, confrontations erupted earlier Sunday morning between Israeli occupation soldiers and Palestinian residents at the south entrance to the city. Israeli soldiers fired teargas at the protesters, causing several cases of suffocation from gas inhalation.
The Israeli siege on Jericho has been imposed during Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
(PC, WAFA)
