Sure looks like an open air prison to me [View all]

[AntivaxHunters]

What's this look like?
Sure looks like an open air prison to me.
And that's not even Gaza, it's the West Bank.
This is the reality of how the Palestinian people are treated at the hands of the Israeli government.



Article from 2019 https://archive.ph/ahbj1]


Under a debilitating siege for more than a decade, Gaza has been rightfully declared the biggest open-air prison in the world. But there is another, similar, prison in Palestine that is less obvious because it suffers from a different kind of siege, undeclared and indirect: the West Bank. Every Palestinian who resides there and holds official Palestinian identification papers is a prisoner in their own home.

Movement and life in the West Bank are governed by the whims of the Israeli security apparatus, which has set up hundreds of checkpoints, gates, artificial barriers, forbidden and segregated roads and of course, the 700km separation wall, as the Israelis call it, or apartheid wall, as we call it.

So what is it like for a Palestinian who tries to go anywhere in the West Bank?

According to Israeli rights organisations B’Tselem, as of January 2017, there were 59 permanent checkpoints within the West Bank and 39 on its periphery to control the movement of people in and out of it.

A LOT more at link above.