A general strike was observed throughout the occupied West Bank on Tuesday in protest against a visit by the United States Vice President Mike Pence to the occupied Palestinian territories.
Shops banks schools government offices and businesses were shut down heeding the call by the Palestinians for the strike.
Overnight Palestinian anti-occupation youth closed off the Jenin-Qalqilya access road to protest Pence’s stopover.
Pence a pro-Israel who pushed for recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and is a strong advocate of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Occupied Jerusalem is expected to visit al-Buraq Wall one of the walls of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday provoking strong Palestinian protest.
