Time: 2:40 p.
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(12:40 p.
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GMT) In the context of the current policy of the belligerent Israeli Occupation Forces aiming at isolating the Palestinian civilian population centers, the Israeli army has blocked the main road in the Gaza Strip.
This road is a very vital one for the residents of the Strip as it extends from Beit Hanoun in the north till Rafah in the south, thus connecting the two halves of Gaza Strip.
In fact it is the only road that connects the two halves of the Strip.
In a new escalating step, the Israelis have blocked the above mentioned road using cement walls this morning.
They placed these walls across the sections of the road by Kfar-Darom Jewish settlement in the north and Gosh Qatif Jewish settlement in the south, and announced the area between these two points a closed military zone.
This act means a complete and real division of the Strip as it isolates the Palestinian cities in Gaza Strip from each other.
This new Israeli aggression is highly dangerous.
It comes in the context of the Israeli policy aiming at creating isolated Palestinian cantons in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
In this context, the belligerent Israeli Occupation Forces continued to impose siege upon the Palestinian cities and blocking the roads in the West Bank.
AL-MEZAN Center for Human Rights stresses that the new Israeli escalation reflects the real Israeli intention aiming at isolating the Palestinian cities from each other, creating a state of starvation amongst the Palestinian civilians, and destruction of their properties.
AL-MEZAN stresses its previous request that the international community must immediately intervene to provide protection for the Palestinian civilians and their properties.
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