Israel closes road leading to Nablus-area village

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Israeli military bulldozers closed a road leading in to the West Bank village of Madama, south of Nablus on Thursday...

...bulldozers constructed earth mounds that make the road inaccessible, blocking access to more than two thirds of the village’s farmland, and severing the main link to the Nablus-Qalqiliya road.

He said the alternative route is difficult to use because it passes near the militant Israeli settlement of Yitzhar.

“Closing this entrance will isolate many of the homes from the village and the structures that are used for poultry,” he said.

Qat noted that residents had been planting winter crops in the isolated area and were also planting trees there under the Green Palestine project sponsored by the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture.

He also reported that settlers destroyed a car belonging to Abdul Aziz Ziada, a resident of the area... Full story