Israel turned West Bank into prisons, occupier violence made it battlefield: Palestinian official

Israeli forces have turned the occupied West Bank into “fragmented prisons,” while occupier violence has made it a “battlefield,” Palestinian National Initiative Secretary-General Mustafa Barghouti said Thursday, Anadolu reports. In a statement, Barghouti said the Israeli army had fragmented the occupied West Bank with more than 1,300 military checkpoints, most of them closed, turning its cities and towns into “fragmented prisons separated from one another.” He said the restrictions had “severely paralyzed economic activity, education and health services.” Barghouti said the situation was accompanied by Israeli army raids across all West Bank governorates, mass arrests, continued repression and home demolitions, as well as the prevention of most Palestinian farmers from reaching their land to harvest olives. “The Israeli occupation uses […]