Violation: closing main entrances via blocks
Location: east Bethlehem
Date: June 19, 2017
Perpetrators: the Israeli Occupation Forces
Victims: farmers and residents of the east Bethlehem towns
Details:
The Israeli Occupation Forces closed on June 19, 2017 main entrances of some villages and towns, east Bethlehem governorate. The towns and villages are Marah Rabah, Beit Ta'mar and AL-'Asakreh.
The occupation seeks to create restrictions and obstacles to hinder the life of Palestinians. Closures create movement restrictions and cost people more money and effort to move around .
Not only pedestrians and private cars but also public transportation were denied right to movement. People had to find substitute roads that are fatiguing and cost more money.
Reportedly, the Israeli occupation forces closed the entrances via road blocks and earth mounds on the claim of "security purposes". In the same time the occupation restricts the movement of Palestinians through such practices and measures, it opens new roads and facilitate the movement of colonists in different parts of the West Bank and elsewhere.
Land Research Center sees that the policy of roads closures as a collective punishment to limit down Palestinians' movement.
International conventions and laws regarding freedom of movement which Israel unabatedly violates:
- Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person”.
- Article 5: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.
- Article 9: “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile”.
- Article 13: Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
- Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation.”
- Article 9: “Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention. No one shall be deprived of his liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedure as are established by law.
Prepared by
The Land Research Center
LRC
