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RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces set up several military checkpoints surrounding several villages and towns in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin, and closed off Route 60 connecting Jerusalem and the illegal Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem.

Locals reported that Israeli forces set up flying checkpoints surrounding the Yaabad, Arraba, Ajja, al-Rama, Kafr Raie, Jabaa, Anza, Zabuba and Anin towns and the the Jenin-Nablus road.

Israeli soldiers deployed at checkpoints interrogated Palestinians and searched their ID cards.

Israeli forces also closed part of Route 60, preventing pedestrian Palestinians from using the road for a marathon for Israeli settlers.

Israeli forces regularly close off Palestinian roads and villages in order to accommodate the more than 600,000 Israeli settlers live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law

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