{"id":863857,"date":"2022-10-30T22:36:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=1d80aa671149ca1bafc6de2d5cf11dd4"},"modified":"2022-10-30T22:36:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:36:23","slug":"siege-of-nablus-how-israel-is-applying-the-gaza-model-to-the-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/30\/siege-of-nablus-how-israel-is-applying-the-gaza-model-to-the-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Siege of Nablus: How Israel is applying the \u2018Gaza model\u2019 to the West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The Israeli army has put the West Bank city of Nablus, and its villages and refugee camps, under siege for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.alaraby.co.uk\/news\/palestinians-decry-collective-punishment-over-nablus-siege\">past three weeks<\/a>, with heavy restrictions on the movement of 430,000 Palestinians residing there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Israel has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.alaraby.co.uk\/news\/israel-continues-impose-closure-nablus-7th-day\">closed the main roads with roadblocks<\/a>\u00a0and checkpoints to impede traffic and has largely prevented residents from exiting or entering the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The strict closure has affected every aspect of daily life and has completely disrupted commercial activities in the city, which is normally a major commercial hub in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Since the siege, traders in the city have reported a sharp decline in income, employees have struggled to access their workplace, and farmers have been denied access to their land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The siege has also hampered the education and health sectors in Nablus and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u201cTerritorial fragmentation of the occupied West Bank and the creation of isolated enclaves are at the core of Israel\u2019s settler colonial endeavour,\u201d Alaa Al-Tartir, policy adviser for Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian think tank, told\u00a0<em>The New Arab<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u201cIt\u2019s been implementing these policies for decades, which allows Israel to impose a siege, like the one currently imposed on Nablus, quickly and easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/mentions\/siege-of-nablus-how-israel-is-applying-the-gaza-model-to-the-west-bank\/\">Siege of Nablus: How Israel is applying the &#8216;Gaza model&#8217; to the West Bank<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/en\">Al-Shabaka<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/mentions\/siege-of-nablus-how-israel-is-applying-the-gaza-model-to-the-west-bank\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=siege-of-nablus-how-israel-is-applying-the-gaza-model-to-the-west-bank\">Al-Shabaka<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Faced with the emergence of a new generation confronting the occupation, Israel is besieging Nablus to stifle resistance, fragment the West Bank, and collectively punish Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/mentions\/siege-of-nablus-how-israel-is-applying-the-gaza-model-to-the-west-bank\/\">Siege of Nablus: How Israel is applying the \u2018Gaza model\u2019 to the West Bank<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/en\">Al-Shabaka<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863858,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863857\/revisions\/863858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}