IOA: 50,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites to remain outside Jerusalem

PIC

[ 09/01/2010 - 03:38 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has decided that all Palestinians living outside the separation wall that isolated eastern Jerusalem from the West Bank would not be considered inhabitants of the holy city.

Hebrew daily Ha'aretz quoted an official responsible for eastern Jerusalem affairs in the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem municipality as saying that those people, although owning the blue IDs allowing them residence in Jerusalem, would no longer be considered inhabitants of the city.

The paper noted that those Jerusalemites were experiencing harsh living conditions after the decision since the Jerusalem municipality stopped extending services to their areas and at the same time the Palestinian Authority is barred from entering the vicinity of occupied Jerusalem and thus could not extend any services to them.

The decision proves that the establishment of the racist, separation wall was based on political and demographic motives and not only for security reasons.

Meanwhile, the IOA police escorted a big number of Jews while performing rituals in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem after cordoning off the entire suburb.

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