Israel turns occupied West Bank town into 'big prison'

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A five-meter-high metal fence slices across the eastern edge of Sinjil, a Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Heavy steel gates and roadblocks seal off all but a single route in and out of the town, watched over by Israeli soldiers at guard posts. “Sinjil is now a big prison,” said Mousa Shabaneh, 52, a father of seven, watching on