Israeli forces today sealed off all entrances to a mount pillaged by Jewish settlers in Beita town, near the West Bank city of Nablus, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Deputy mayor of Beita, Mousa Hamayel, told WAFA that Israeli military bulldozers closed all the entrances to Jabal Sabih (Sabih Mountain), which has become a scene of weekly protests against decades of Jewish settler-colonialism and apartheid.
Israeli forces bulldozers closed all the entrances leading to Mount Sabih to prevent access of Palestinian protesters to the illegal settlement outpost of Evyatar, which was recently built illegally on Mount Sabih.#SaveBeitahttps://t.co/9ZcdFLn5kJ
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 23, 2021
He pledged that cordoning off the mount will not deter residents of Beita from stepping up their struggle against Israeli settler-colonialism.
The residents of Beita and the surrounding villages have been holding weekly Friday rallies to protest the construction of the new colonial settlement of Givat Eviatar atop Jabal Sabih as well as the seizure of lands belonging to the villagers of Beita, Huwarra, and Za‘tara to inaugurate a new settler-only bypass road.
Israeli occupation forces bulldoze several roads outside the village of Beita in the occupied West Bank to obstruct access of Palestinians to the illegal settlement outpost of Evyatar, where Palestinian protesters have been demonstrating in protest of the new outpost.#SaveBeita pic.twitter.com/LzOH5P2pks
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 23, 2021
Israeli forces have used fatal violence to disperse the rallies, killing five Palestinians from the town and injuring over 618 others in almost a month.
(WAFA, PC, Social Media)
