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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Israeli authorities will impose a complete shut down of the occupied West Bank -- preventing all Palestinians from entering Israel -- for two days beginning Tuesday due to Jewish holidays, a source in the Palestinian liaison department told Ma'an.

The source said beginning Tuesday and lasting until Thursday evening, all checkpoints into Israel would be closed, with the exception of Eyal checkpoint near Qalqiliya, which will be open for humanitarian cases.

An Israeli army spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter.

Israel regularly closes checkpoints during Jewish holidays, including, most recently, in September ahead of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), when West Bank checkpoints were closed and large numbers of Israeli forces deployed across occupied East Jerusalem.

A succession of Jewish holidays that month -- and accompanying visits by Jewish groups to the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound -- played a major role in triggering a wave of unrest that subsequently swept the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel.

The violence has carried on unabated into 2016, with around 190 Palestinians and nearly 30 Israelis left dead since October, as well as thousands more Palestinians wounded in clashes with Israeli forces.