Kerem Navot

It hasn't lifted.

Soldiers are using the siege to clear the way for a new twenty-kilometer military road residents call Crimson Thread, cutting through about one hundred and fifteen hectares of land, eighty-five percent of it privately owned by Palestinians, according to Kerem Navot, an Israeli group that monitors settlement and land use policy.

Residents haul supplies in by donkey at night.

Fifty-one schoolchildren have been blocked from reaching their classrooms.