• Violation: closing a village entrance
• Location: Shaqba village, northwest of Ramallah
• Date: September 03, 2017
• Perpetrator: the Israeli Occupation Army
• Victims: residents of the village
• Details:
On the evening of Sunday, September 03, 2017, force from the Israeli Occupation Army accompanied by a military bulldozer closed the eastern entrance to the village of Shaqba, northwest of Ramallah via earth mounds.
The Israeli occupation army claimed that a Palestinian shot fire at an Israeli vehicle belonging to a colonist from the colony of "Nili" nearby while driving by the area.
It is noteworthy that the closure of the eastern entrance to the village of Shaqba affected some 4500 residents, who got their movement restricted to daily destinations.
Reportedly, this entrance is almost the only link between the village and the Palestinian periphery.
The policy of closing Palestinian roads and preventing communication between Palestinian communities in the West Bank is an Israeli policy that was reinforced in the aftermath of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 and is still implemented until today. There are still at least 300 obstacles blocking Palestinian roads in the West Bank. As a result, farmers got denied access to their land in some locations and human cases got hindered as well.
Photo 1: the closed entrance
About Shaqba :
The village of Shaqba is located 35km to west of Ramallah governorate. It has a population estimation of 4000-4500 people. The area of the village is 15,000 dunums, of which 11,000 dunums are olive groves.
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
