At 7 am this morning the Israeli army entered the village of Al Jiftlik, central Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank. Soldiers went door to door ordering all tractor owners to bring their farming vehicles to the closed military zone between Massu'a settlement and a nearby Israeli army base, where they had set up a temporary inspection point in a disused bus shelter. Flying checkpoints were set up on roads in the area, presumably to ensure that no tractor escaped uninspected.
