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‘This is Collective Punishment:’ West Bank Palestinians Under Curfew Say They Are Being Punished For Something They Did Not Do

‘This is Collective Punishment:’ West Bank Palestinians Under Curfew Say They Are Being Punished For Something They Did Not Do

Hebron, West BankCNN —  Palestinian educator Tarik Betar has known only a life of repression and indignity, he told CNN, with longstanding restrictions, checkpoints and curfews, put in place by the Israeli military in the 1990s, meaning he is unable to walk across his street in the West Bank city of Hebron. Betar, who works at the local polytechnic college, said those restrictions became a chokehold the day Hamas militants from Gaza attacked Israel, killing at least 1,200 people. The 47-year-old is one of thousands of Palestinians living in nearly a dozen neighborhoods in Israeli-controlled areas of Hebron, who have been effectively “imprisoned at…
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