PALESTINE
Mon 11 Dec 2023 9:08 am - Jerusalem Time
General strike across West Bank, coinciding with a global movement denouncing the aggression against Gaza
The comprehensive strike spread throughout the country’s governorates, today, Monday, denouncing the ongoing Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, for the 66th day in a row, and demanding an end to the heinous massacres and bombing of safe citizens’ homes, hospitals, and shelter centers.
The strike called for by the national and Islamic forces in the northern governorates, in conjunction with a global movement, to call for a comprehensive strike around the world, to demand an end to the aggression against the Gaza Strip, and in solidarity with our people, paralyzed all aspects of life, and universities, banks, banks, and shops were closed, amid calls Popular masses to continue confrontation activities with the occupation.
The strike included public transportation in the northern governorates, and the streets were empty of vehicles and pedestrians, and factories and laboratories were closed.
Activists on social media platforms had launched calls for a comprehensive strike around the world, in solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip in the face of the war of extermination carried out by the Israeli occupation forces.
They believed that the comprehensive strike around the world aims to urge governments in their countries to take serious action to stop the Israeli massacres and genocide crimes that have been continuing for more than two months.
A large number of activists and influencers interacted with the hashtag “Strike for Gaza” or strikeforgaza, which swept social media sites, to participate in the strike to denounce the massacres against our Palestinian people, and to demand an immediate ceasefire.
According to the details of the calls circulating on social media sites, participation in the global strike includes refraining from going to work centers, schools, and universities, or opening shops in commercial centers, not using vehicles, not shopping, or using bank cards to pay for their purchases.
Since the seventh of last October, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving about 18,000 killed and about 47,000 wounded, most of them children and women, in addition to thousands still under the rubble believed to have been martyred, and massive destruction of infrastructure. And an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
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General strike across West Bank, coinciding with a global movement denouncing the aggression against Gaza