Jenin – WAFA| The participants in a workshop held by the Center for the Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” in Jenin municipality hall titled “The Right to Travel and Movement” called for resisting the Israeli travel ban policy, the necessity and significance of activating the role of Media and coordinating between governmental and non-governmental organizations in order to raise the causes of the prisoners to the international courts.
They emphasized the necessity of activating the Arab role in this regard and strengthening the coordination between the organizations in order to expose the occupation practices and work on any ban imposed by the fellow countries.
The speakers also asserted the importance of activating and involving the Media and law to create variable programs serving the cause of prisoners and ailing detainees. They indicated as well the importance of the role that the Palestinian Embassies abroad could take through conducting seminars and conferences concerned with the cause of sick prisoners, especially the children.
The participants agreed on initiating their activities at the bridge area in Jericho to shed light on the travel ban policy in the nearest place to al-Karameh Bridge Crossing.
The executive director of the Center pointed to the remarkable increase in the arrests especially since the beginning of the popular outburst where the detainees are subjected to different kinds of torture, specifically the Jerusalemite detainees, in addition to detaining the bodies of martyrs without any intervention from the international community. He added that the Israeli Occupation crimes peaked through the security prohibition where the number of the banned from travelling has reached more than 50 thousand citizens in Hebron, 22 thousand citizens in Jenin and 22 thousand citizens in Tulkarm and Qalqilya.
The director of Hurryyat Center, Helmi Araj, mentioned the efforts of the Center in cooperation with different human rights organizations after forming a committee involving participants and those affected by the travel ban policy to resist the Israeli practices including depriving the Palestinians from their right to free travel and movement and to organize different activities.
He also stated that banning any citizen from travelling is a great crime and a major violation of the International Humanitarian Law and all international conventions which should be exposed and resisted in all possible ways.
The workshop was attended by representatives of public and private institutions, national parties, social activists, and local bodies.