Hakki
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Bryan Atinsky
||
|| Israel Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons
||
|| 2 December 2001
|| Palestine Media Center - PMC
|| http://www.palestine-pmc.com
||
|| Israeli occupation authorities declared during the afternoon hours of 2
|| December, that all Palestinian civilians would be barred from exiting or
|| entering Palestinian-controlled areas. According to the Israeli media,
|| Palestinian traffic is not to leave any Palestinian-controlled
|| area (area A)
|| or travel between area A and villages in areas B and C
|| throughout the West
|| Bank.
||
||
||
|| The move effectively turns every Palestinian population center,
|| no matter
|| how large or small, into a prison. Israeli media purports that
|| the Israeli
|| occupation authorities have stated that travel exemptions would
|| be permitted
|| "in humanitarian cases only". However, such claims or announcements have
|| been proven false on the ground on numerous occasions, often leading to
|| deaths and health complications of Palestinian civilians in
|| need of medical
|| attention.
||
|| (...)