29 Mar 2024
Thursday 8 September 2016 - 10:54
Story Code : 230483

Arab League slams Israeli blockade on Palestinian villages




The Arab League has strongly censured the Israeli regime for imposing a blockade over 10 villages in the occupied West Bank, saying such a measure is a violation of international regulations.

The recent Israeli blockade on the villages, located to the south of the city of Nablus, has completely cut them off from the west of the occupied territory, preventing the local residents from either entering the localities or leaving them, Kuwaits official news agency KUNA reported.

Reacting on Tuesday, the Cairo-based Arab bloc said the move was in line with the Israeli policy of collective punishment, which aims to turn the villages into large prisons and undermine the economic fundamentals of the Palestinian residents, according to the report.
The Israeli occupation authorities persist in stifling the Palestinian residents through intensification of the military barriers with a view to forming small and isolated cantons in contravention of the international laws and conventions, and human rights, the group added.


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Israeli forces conduct searches in the village of Madama in the north of the occupied West Bank on August 24, 2016. AFP[/caption]

Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967, and has since been dotting the territory with check posts and barriers, which have severely constrained the Palestinians freedom of movement.

The regimes military also lays sieges on local villages in reaction to purported violence or under the pretext of preempting pending tension.

Besides working to smother Palestinians, the Israeli violations pose a grave threat to the security and stability of the entire Middle East region as a whole, the Arab League, meanwhile, said.

Despite the Arab Leagues efforts to portray itself as a traditional adversaryof Tel Aviv and the upholderof the Palestinian cause, some of its members, particularly Saudi Arabia, have been accused of secretly supporting the regime.






By Press TV

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