Occupied Jerusalem-SANA
The Israeli occupation continues to tighten its land and sea blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has been going on for 15 years, and has strangled more than two million Palestinians in it. Unemployment and poverty rates as a result of the siege and repeated occupation attacks.
The steel concrete wall, which the occupation ended its construction, extends from Beit Hanoun in the north to Rafah in the south, with a length of 65 km, a height of 6 to 10 meters, and a depth of 25 meters.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Wasel Abu Yousef, indicated in a statement to SANA reporter that the occupation was not satisfied with preventing the arrival of medicines, food and fuel to the Gaza Strip, but also erected steel walls to tighten the unjust siege imposed on more than two million Palestinians in the Strip in an attempt to suffocate them, indicating that all the walls and all attempts The occupation will not be able to break the will of steadfastness and steadfastness of the Palestinian people who continue to defend and struggle to regain their full rights.
In turn, a member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Osama Al-Hajj Ahmed, said: The occupation used all the tools and methods of the siege against the Gaza Strip in an attempt to harm and deepen the humanitarian crisis for the people of the Strip who are living in tragic conditions as a result of the occupation’s tightening of its unjust siege, stressing that these walls will not hinder the resistance and steadfastness of the Palestinian people To defeat the occupation and establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Talal Abu Zarifa, pointed out that the wall is a form of racial discrimination and represents a flagrant violation of international laws. Lifting the unjust blockade of the sector.
For his part, human rights researcher Hussein Hammad said that the occupation continues through this cement wall its land and sea siege to suffocate and besiege the Palestinians, pointing out that this wall will deprive farmers of cultivating their lands for fear of the occupation’s continuous fire towards them, which caused the death and injury of dozens, explaining that the occupation did not He is satisfied with that, but he has provided this wall with robots equipped with firearms, and this comes in light of the daily organized and grave violations committed by the occupation, which is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and international laws.
The head of the International Commission for Supporting the Rights of the Palestinian People, Salah Abdel-Ati, said that this wall further tightened the unjust siege imposed on the Gaza Strip with the aim of destroying the fundamentals of the Palestinian economy and environment, as it prevents the reconstruction process of what was destroyed in the aggression of last May on the Gaza Strip and continues to prevent entry of basic materials needed for the reconstruction process. Reconstruction of homes, industrial facilities and infrastructure, indicating that hundreds of families are still without shelter and most of the factories have stopped as a result of their destruction during the aggression or the lack of raw materials, which calls for urgent intervention from the international community to stop the occupation’s aggressions and violations.
The specialist in water and environmental affairs, Tawfiq Al-Banesh, explained that there will be catastrophic consequences for the wall on all components of the environment, water, agricultural, terrestrial and marine life in the east and north of the Gaza Strip, especially since this wall greatly affects the water flow of the aquifer in the Strip, which already suffers from a severe shortage of water. Its salinity is high, so that 97 percent of the water has become unusable, in addition to depriving the Gaza Strip of cultivating 17 percent of the lands near this wall for reasons related to the continuous targeting of them by the occupation snipers and the occupation’s bulldozing of all the lands located in the vicinity of the concrete wall, and this deprived hundreds of farmers of a source their strength.
Mohammed Abu Shabab
