Heavy steel gates and roadblocks seal off all but a single route in and out of the town of Sinjil, watched over by Israeli soldiers at guard posts.

A towering 5-meter (16-foot) metal fence slices through the eastern edge of Sinjil, a Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Heavy

The incident highlights the lack of law and order in parts of the occupied territory where Israelis associated with the settler movement have increasingly attacked Palestinians without consequences.