On Tony Karon’s blog, Saif Ammous offers the following rundown on human rights in the Occupied Territories (Take note, Amnesty International…):
…an observer will find an illegal Israeli occupation that has been festering for 40 years, combined with illegal ethnically-exclusive colonies built on stolen Palestinian land, and the world’s only ethnically-segregated road network, where many routes can only be accessed by Jews. An internationally-illegal apartheid barrier
surrounds Palestinian towns and villages, not only cutting them off
from one another, but also cutting off farmers from their lands,
children from their schools, patients from their hospitals and workers
from their jobs. Israel controls all of the Palestinians’ openings to
the outside world, stifling not only Palestinians’ freedom of movement,
but also their economy and trade. One of the world’s strongest armies, the IDF, is regularly unleashed on civilian populations…
