Israeli occupation government imposes a different form of blockade in the West Bank, says MP Jamal Al-Khudari

Occupation is imposing a different form of blockade in the West Bank

[ 25/07/2008 - 05:18 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Palestinian MP Jamal al-Khudari, head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege (PCAS) condemned the Israeli occupation raid, on Thursday, on the industrial zone of Beit Fajjar, to the south of Bethlehem.

Khudari issued a statement on Friday in which he said that the IOF raid of about 45 workshops which specialize in cutting and shaping granite as well as different kinds of stone for building meant extending the blockade to include the West Bank.

The raids targeted a vibrant sector of the Palestinian economy in the West Bank and Bethlehem in particular. A sector which employs a large number of workers and which is depended on by the construction industry in the West Bank in general.

The IOF confiscated millions of dollars worth of bulldozers, compressors, saws, generators and lorries.

Khudari stressed that the occupation aims to destroy the Palestinian national economy both in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip where thousands of factories had to close after two years of siege.

He also pointed out that the recent closures of charities, medical centres and a shopping mall in the Nablus and the closure earlier of charities in al-Khalil are all part of the occupation war on the Palestinian economy.

These forms of war are added to the apartheid wall, the hundreds of roadblocks which dissect the West Bank and the building of Jewish only settlements.

Khudari called on the international community to intervene to stop this vicious war waged by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem.

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