TULKAREM, West Bank — A SHOCKING and BRUTAL collective punishment is unfolding in plain sight. Hanadi Abu Zant, a mother of four, is a HUNTED WOMAN in her own land, forced to hide in a mosque when her landlord calls the police to evict her. Her crime? Being Palestinian in the occupied West Bank after Israel REVOKED her work permit following October 7th. “Where will we sleep, on the street?” she pleads, her tears a damning indictment of a policy critics are calling ECONOMIC WARFARE.
She is one of 100,000 Palestinians SYSTEMATICALLY STRIPPED of their livelihoods in a move that has CRIPPLED the West Bank economy, sending unemployment skyrocketing to 30%. This is not mere security; this is a DELIBERATE strategy of strangulation. Desperate fathers now scale 30-foot apartheid walls, risking death or imprisonment, just to feed their children. Mothers stare into empty refrigerators as their belongings are thrown into the street. The World Bank warns of TOTAL COLLAPSE, while Israeli settlers—living illegally on stolen land—move freely and even employ a captive Palestinian workforce under conditions of FEAR and surveillance.
An anonymous Israeli official coldly states Palestinians have “no inherent right” to enter Israel, a stance that ignores DECADES of economic dependency Israel itself cultivated. Billions in vital income have been VAPORIZED overnight. Meanwhile, the machinery of occupation grinds on, enabling violent settler expansion while pushing Palestinians toward a precipice of starvation and despair. This is the chilling reality of a two-tiered system: one population with rights and mobility, another caged and impoverished.
They are not just losing jobs; they are being erased from the future, one eviction notice and one empty stomach at a time. Ask yourself: How long before a people pushed into a corner have nothing left to lose?
Author: Kayitsi.com
