As if we needed anymore!
Israel has begun to enforce a policy of not allowing Palestinians who live abroad to enter the West Bank (entry to Gaza having being prevented since the beginning of the intifada). The story also mentions that other non-Palestinian nationals are being barred entry. In other words, the metaphorical prison just got that much more literal.
Imagine for a moment that you grew up in the West Bank, moved to Europe or North America after graduating from university to find work, leaving your family behind in the process, and then you arrive this summer to find that you can no longer visit your childhood home, your parents, your siblings and their families or your oldest friends.
If this scenario wasn't bad enough, remember also that people living inside the territories are very infrequently given permits to travel (i.e. leave the West Bank). In other words, the State of Israel is now preventing the people who live under their Occupation from even seeing their relatives. And their efforts to hide the many violences they commit on a daily basis, by also preventing foreign nationals from entering this space of Occupation, have also increased.
[But if you're Jewish and live in North America, Europe, etc, you're still entitled to come and live here (i.e. on somebody elses land) at any time].
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