JENIN (PIC)– A hermitic closure was imposed by the IOF troops on Jenin Friday night that isolated it from the rest of the West Bank cities alleging that information pointed to possible Palestinian attacks in the Israeli depth originating from that city.
Local Palestinian sources pointed out that the IOF troops installed military barriers and mobilized patrols at the main junctions that connect Jenin with Tulkarm city and the Jordan Valley.
Eyewitnesses in the area revealed that the Israeli occupation army sealed off entrances of a number of Palestinian towns surrounding Jenin with sand barriers thus isolating the Palestinian vital city from the rest of the world.
A number of Palestinian citizens were stranded at the city and failed to return to their homes in nearby cities after the IOF troops declared Jenin a closed military zone.
Palestinians in Jenin district are subjected to continuous IOF troops’ search campaigns that usually ransack their homes as the Israeli occupation army claims it is searching for Palestinian resistance fighters.
More vicious IOF aggressions were applied on the tiny Gaza Strip as the IOA started Friday reducing amount of fuel and electricity supplies to the populated Strip where 1.5 million Palestinian citizens are living in tragic human conditions after nearly two years of crushing economic siege imposed by Israel and the USA.
Local observes asserted that the IOA decision fall in line with the IOA scheme to punish the Gaza Strip inhabitants.
The spokesman of the Israeli deputy war minister Matan Vilnai said that the IOA will eventually reduce by 5% electricity supply given to Gaza; yet another Israeli official refused to describe the Israeli step as “punishment”.
“We have dissociated ourselves from them (Gaza inhabitants) after we pulled out our soldiers and settlers [in 2005] and we want them to administer their own affairs by themselves as they have a generation station and they can get electricity from Egypt. We want them to stop relying on us” alleged Vilnai through his spokesman.
Under international laws any occupation force is duty-bound to answer the basic life needs of the people it occupies.
