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The Palestinians staged a total strike in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as well as the blockade of the Gaza Strip to protest the much-criticized Israeli law that declares Israel the "nation-state" of the Jewish people.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa News & Info, Palestinian businesses, government and financial institutions, as well as schools and universities closed on Monday in protest against the so-called Basic Law on the State. adopted in the Israeli Parliament in July.
Public transport services have also been suspended in protest.
"The fundamental law of nation states" calls Israel – the entity occupying a historically Palestinian land – a "state" and describes it as "the national home of the Jewish people".
The Israeli regime has no constitution and the law in question was passed as the so-called basic law which, according to the Times of Israel, "would guide the Israeli legal system as a constitution" and is "more difficult to repeal." than the regular laws. "
The law also claims Jerusalem al-Quds, "complete and united" – which would also include occupied territory – as the "capital" of Israel.
Long living under the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian people seek to establish their own independent state, with Al-Quds in East Jerusalem as their capital.
While the law focuses on Judaism, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the adoption of this law as "a decisive moment in the annals of Zionism."
Arab legislators tore up the bill immediately after the vote in protest, calling it apartheid.
Wafa said the Palestinian leaders "represented in Israel by the Monitoring Committee and the nationalist and Islamic forces in the West Bank and Gaza" joined the strike "to protest against the negative impact of the new law on the racism about life, history, culture and society, traditions, as well as the existence of several million Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories. "
Before being adopted, the law had already criticized human rights groups as a racist bill that would deprive Palestinians of their rights.
The United States, allies of the Israeli regime, this year unilaterally recognized Jerusalem al-Quds as the "capital" of Israel and moved its embassy there, triggering massive opposition from Palestinians and the world. whole.
