Israel bisects West Bank into 8 huge detention camps
IRNA | 21.05.2002 22:07
Seeking to suffocate the Palestinian people into unconditional capitulation, Israel has bisected the
West Bank into eight huge detention centers cut off from each other and virtually isolated from the rest of the outside world.
West Bank into eight huge detention centers cut off from each other and virtually isolated from the rest of the outside world.
The eight segregated areas are the al-Khalil region, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jericho, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm and Qalqilya.
According to the new draconian measures, Palestinians, including pedestrians, travelling outside their immediate towns and places of residence will have to obtain a special freedom-of- movement permit from the Israeli domestic intelligence, the Shin Beth.
The immediate purpose of the extremely harsh measure is to suffocate the Palestinian population by forcing them into a situation of collective claustrophobia.
However, the ultimate goal of dividing the West Bank into 8 isolated bantustans seems to effect and expedite what one Israeli official recently termed "a quiet transfer," e.g. induced mass deportation of Palestinians from their ancestral homeland by making normal life unbearable.
The measure is expected to further cripple Palestinian economic life and paralyze all aspects of life in the West Bank, particularly the educational system as students and teachers are barred from reaching their schools and colleges outside their places of residence.
Palestinian officials castigated "these apartheid arrangements," calling on the international community to exert pressure on the Zionist regime to respect the humanity of the Palestinian people.
"This must be the penultimate step before the appearance of real Nazi-like concentration camps. The question is should the world wait until this happens," asked Ya'acoub Shahin, a PA spokesman in Bethlehem.
"Their goal is simply to make life unbearable for the average Palestinian citizen so much so that he will be forced to contemplate immigrating from his homeland," said Shahin.
But he added that "I assure you that this won't happen, because this is our motherland."
Protesting the cantonization of the West Bank, the PA has asked the European Union to pressurize Israel to reconsider the grave
measures.
EU representatives in the West Bank have reportedly briefed their respective governments about the new situation and are awaiting a diplomatic response.
Israel's unabated efforts to reduce Palestinian population centers to virtual concentration camps (minus gas chambers) are coupled with continuing haphazard murder of Palestinians civilians, often shot and killed while venturing to return to their homes from their jobs or vice versa.
This week, the Israeli army murdered at least eight innocent Palestinians including a seven-year-old child, two young boys, a housewife, and a medical doctor.
According to the new draconian measures, Palestinians, including pedestrians, travelling outside their immediate towns and places of residence will have to obtain a special freedom-of- movement permit from the Israeli domestic intelligence, the Shin Beth.
The immediate purpose of the extremely harsh measure is to suffocate the Palestinian population by forcing them into a situation of collective claustrophobia.
However, the ultimate goal of dividing the West Bank into 8 isolated bantustans seems to effect and expedite what one Israeli official recently termed "a quiet transfer," e.g. induced mass deportation of Palestinians from their ancestral homeland by making normal life unbearable.
The measure is expected to further cripple Palestinian economic life and paralyze all aspects of life in the West Bank, particularly the educational system as students and teachers are barred from reaching their schools and colleges outside their places of residence.
Palestinian officials castigated "these apartheid arrangements," calling on the international community to exert pressure on the Zionist regime to respect the humanity of the Palestinian people.
"This must be the penultimate step before the appearance of real Nazi-like concentration camps. The question is should the world wait until this happens," asked Ya'acoub Shahin, a PA spokesman in Bethlehem.
"Their goal is simply to make life unbearable for the average Palestinian citizen so much so that he will be forced to contemplate immigrating from his homeland," said Shahin.
But he added that "I assure you that this won't happen, because this is our motherland."
Protesting the cantonization of the West Bank, the PA has asked the European Union to pressurize Israel to reconsider the grave
measures.
EU representatives in the West Bank have reportedly briefed their respective governments about the new situation and are awaiting a diplomatic response.
Israel's unabated efforts to reduce Palestinian population centers to virtual concentration camps (minus gas chambers) are coupled with continuing haphazard murder of Palestinians civilians, often shot and killed while venturing to return to their homes from their jobs or vice versa.
This week, the Israeli army murdered at least eight innocent Palestinians including a seven-year-old child, two young boys, a housewife, and a medical doctor.
IRNA
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