Turning the West Bank into ghettos

The occupation continues its escalation in the West Bank, according to a systematic aggressive vision, by implementing a policy of assassinations by aircraft bombing, invasion, great destruction, deliberate killing and arrests, and is working to cut off cities from each other and from villages and camps, with iron gates, military checkpoints, towers and surveillance cameras, according to a policy of strangulation and racial segregation that has made movement impossible for Palestinians, such that it has become difficult and long hours of travel and suffering, and the military checkpoints have become points for humiliating and abusing Palestinians through reckless practices by soldiers, while the occupation has invaded all cities, villages and camps with a daily invasion day and night, and it is working to tighten the economic noose and freedom of movement and travel, and it continues the process of stealing land for the benefit of settlements, through plans for nibbling, annexation and Judaization that are not limited to the cities of the West Bank, but rather primarily target Jerusalem, with all its sanctities and Palestinian human and emotional heritage, and all its deep cultural legacy.

The occupation government intentionally installed hundreds of iron gates at the entrances to cities and villages, closed most of the time, and opened for a few hours each day, according to the apartheid system based on isolating Palestinians in small, narrow communities, poor in conditions and weak in their components and capabilities of life, in light of the continuation of daily demolition and sabotage operations, and targeting all aspects of life, in order to drown the West Bank in a state of economic paralysis and general poverty. All of this comes within the framework of what the occupation government seeks and plans, according to a declared policy based on pushing Palestinians to think about voluntary immigration, and for this they work to create a desperate and miserable reality besieged from all sides, in which all forms of life are absent and the means of livelihood are lost.

Cities isolated from each other, from their villages and camps, violated at all times by the hand of systematic destruction and devastation, and the mentality of apartheid and ethnic cleansing, and they are surrounded by gates, soldiers, military checkpoints, the separation wall and settlements. This is the reality imposed by the occupation, and it seeks to establish it through a set of laws that achieve absolute dominance, which it wants and seeks to achieve in all forms and means, and with new and renewed methods.

In the face of all this, the Palestinian bet remains on the patience and steadfastness of the people, but the bet alone is not enough, rather the people need the elements of support and assistance to survive and endure, and this requires Palestinian and Arab solidarity, and more serious international positions in dealing with the arrogance of the occupation, which will not stop, as long as it does not find anyone to stop it and stand in its way, as it continues with its policy of sabotage, killing and destruction, and it is based on the mentality of ethnic cleansing, racism and terrorism.

Isolated ghettos, with no communication between them except by orders of the occupation, and people without the most basic rights to freedom of movement, travel and travel, and this is what the reality has become in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and this is what the people are experiencing from continuous and ongoing oppression, persecution and suffocation, and from assassinations, arrests and daily invasions, and the clear targeting of Palestine, the land, the cause and the people.