RAMALLAH _ Palestine News Network
The occupation authorities have made further headway in their policy of apartheid against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, after revealing that they have begun dividing the streets of the West Bank through the construction of a apartheid wall, the allocation of a settler route, and another by Palestinians.
According to Hebrew sources, the Israeli occupation authorities have begun to construct a apartheid wall on one of the main streets in the occupied West Bank to separate Palestinian drivers from Israeli settlers.
The Hebrew Channel 10 said: The occupation authorities built an 8-metre-high, 4-kilometre-long apartheid wall along the highway, called "437 ", from the settlement area of "Ma´aleh Adumim " East of occupied Jerusalem to the center of the city, noting that the occupation authorities had placed a barrier To the police to prevent Palestinian drivers from entering the settler route.
It noted that the occupation authorities claim that the construction of the wall is aimed at easing traffic congestion for drivers from settlements in the Ramallah area and the Central West Bank.
According to the channel, the Palestinians call this street the name of the "apartheid" street.
According to the channel, the road construction project was initiated by the Israeli Ministry of Transport, costing more than 150 million shekels ($43 million), indicating that it would form part of the "Greater Jerusalem" scheme and link settlements in the Central West Bank area of occupied Jerusalem.
She noted that any Palestinian driver attempting to enter the settler route would face immediate action from an Israeli police checkpoint.
The channel quoted the "IR Amim" Association (an Israeli leftist for Jerusalem affairs) as "the road called the" Road of apartheid, starting from the town of Anata northeast of occupied Jerusalem, continuing to the town of al-Zaeem (east), then reaching the Israeli side, and connecting many of the settlements very close to ram God in occupied Jerusalem ".
It noted that the new road was aimed at annexing settlements to occupied Jerusalem and continuing to control millions of Palestinians.
A report was published a few months ago by the "Beitzam" (Israeli leftist anti-settlement organization), which confirmed that Israel had established a system of racial segregation in the streets of the West Bank, "intersected in many lines with the racial discrimination regime in force in South Africa."
She pointed out that it is the national origin of every person in the bank that gives or deprives him of the right to use these streets.
The organization added that the "Forbidden Street system" exercised by the occupation authorities "is based on the premise that every Palestinian citizen, whoever he is, is a security risk, which justifies his freedom of movement."
The Israeli authorities began construction of the wall between the West Bank and the 1948 border between 2002 and 2012, under the Ariel Sharon Government, under the pretext of "preventing the implementation of Palestinian attacks against Israel", and the Palestinians call it the "apartheid wall".
According to estimates, the area of isolated and besieged Palestinian land between the wall and the 1948 border amounted to approximately 680 square kilometres in 2012, eating about 12 per cent of the land area of the West Bank.
In 2004, the International Court of Justice of the United Nations adopted an advisory decision condemning and criminalizing the annexation wall and extending the decision of the court to all forms of Israeli settlement, illegal and contrary to international law and legality.
