Israeli Occupation Government imposes security closure for 10 days on West Bank due to Jewish Festival

[ 13/10/2008 - 12:14 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli Occupation Government (IOG) troops at the behest of Israeli war minister Ehud Barak imposed as of midnight Monday a comprehensive security cordon around the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948 for 10 days at the pretext of celebrating a Jewish festival called Sukkot.

According to this decision, Palestinian citizens will not be allowed to enter the 1948 Palestinian occupied lands.

Since the outbreak of the second Palestinian Intifada at the end of September 2000, Israel has been imposing a partial blockade on the West Bank, the thing which aggravated the suffering of the Palestinian people and disrupted their lives there.

The IOG had imposed a similar security closure on the West Bank last week at the pretext of celebrating one of their many Jewish festivals.

In another context, the IOG troops at the Beit Iba checkpoint, west of Nablus, kidnapped at an early hour Monday three Palestinian young men alleging that they found explosives in their possession and took them to an unknown destination.

The IOG troops often deliberately and unjustly accuse Palestinian citizens trying to cross checkpoints of possessing weapons or explosives in order to justify their arrest.

Palestinian eyewitnesses reported that a large number of IOG troops and military vehicles encircled for hours at dawn Sunday the house of a Palestinian citizen in Bethlehem before kidnapping him, adding that an Israeli military bulldozer showed up and started demolishing the house's garage.

The IOG troops also kidnapped on the same day two young men after storming their homes in the Khader town, south of Bethlehem.

Palestinian local sources said that the IOG troops stormed at an early hour Sunday the Asira town, north of Nablus breaking into and ransacking a number of houses and kidnapped four Palestinian citizens before withdrawal.

The IOG troops reportedly kidnapped another young man at the Za'tara checkpoint, east of Salfit, north of the West Bank.

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