Friday, May 8, 2009

some of the major issues that Palestinians face

Some issues Palestinians face today is as follows:
• They do not have their own country, hence no passports and traveling is extremely difficult
• Many of the more than 40,000 pregnant women in Gaza are unable to leave their homes for medical treatment because of the Israeli onslaught and hospitals swamped with the thousands of injured
• Israel has been occupying the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the 1967 War, ignoring the Fourth Geneva Conventions and over eighty United Nations General Assembly Resolutions.
• The Israeli military controls the movement of the nearly four million Palestinians through a system of checkpoints, roadblocks, and segregated roads
• The Israeli Army exercises virtually unchecked freedom to detain, threaten, arrest, imprison, torture, and even kill Palestinians, often without charge or trial.
• The Israeli government sponsors the transfer of Jewish Israeli citizens from Israel to Israeli colonies in the Palestinian Territories known as settlements
• Security Fence that is currently under construction by Israel in the name of preventing terrorism in fact weaves through, not around, the West Bank, with the primary effect of separating hundreds of thousands of West Bank Palestinians from their land and from each other.
• Denied legal citizenship anywhere, Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories are nonetheless required to pay taxes to Israel, which has an annual GDP over fifty times that of the Palestinian Territories, and an average annual income of more than US$20,500 compared with $750 in the West Bank and $550 in Gaza.

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