Citizens for Fair Legislation
For Immediate Release
January 14, 2006
CFL ALERT: IDF cantonizes West Bank, sealing in 800,000 Palestinians. Please take a moment to send our letter to your elected officials and ask them to condemn this racist policy which is isolating close to one million Palestinians.
*For the last month the Israeli Occupation Forces kept the West Bank severed and prevented Palestinians from Tulkarem, Nablus, Jenin and adjacent areas from traveling towards Ramallah. Palestinians have not been informed how long this ban will last. According to Israeli daily, Haaretz, “The IDF has also cut off direct traffic links within the northern West Bank. The main artery – Road 60, running from the Shavei Shomron settlement to the road leading to the settlements Mevo Dotan and Homesh, has been closed to all Palestinian traffic since mid-August by means of three steel gates. Military sources have told international organizations that this road will be closed to Palestinian traffic until the construction of an additional security fence around Shavei Shomron is completed.”
*The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) has issued a statement that the travel ban on Palestinians appears to be the collective punishment of close to 1 million Palestinians. Please remind your elected officials that collective punishment is prohibited under international humanitarian law.
*Tell your representatives that it is hard for Palestinians to focus on elections or anything resembling a normal life when these travel bans are disconnecting people from their families, jobs, schools and communities. What Israel is doing to the Palestinians in the West Bank is economic, social and cultural collective punishment.
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