WEST BANK (Dispatches) – A Zionist regime far-right minister has ordered police to ban Palestinian flags from public places in the latest crackdown by the regime’s new hard-line rulers.
Itamar Ben-Gvir’s order follows a series of other punitive steps against the Palestinians since taking office late last month.
“Today I directed the Israel Police to enforce the prohibition of flying any PLO flag… from the public sphere and to stop any incitement against Israel,” Ben-Gvir announced on Twitter on Monday.
Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new cabinet has moved quickly against the Palestinians in retaliation for a Palestinian push for the UN’s highest judicial body to give its opinion on the regime’s 55-year military occupation of the West Bank.
It has withheld nearly $40 million in Palestinian tax revenues and said it will transfer the money to ‘victims’ of Palestinian resistance movement fighters, stripped Palestinian officials of VIP privileges and even broke up a meeting of Palestinian parents discussing their children’s education, claiming it was unlawfully funded by the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinian prime minister on Monday accused the Zionist regime’s new extremist rulers of trying to topple the Palestinian Authority, and warned that a series of new Zionist sanctions could further inflame what has been a particularly deadly period of fighting.
Palestinian premier Mohammad Shtayyeh said the Zionist measures are “aimed at toppling the authority and pushing it to the brink financially and institutionally.”
“We consider these measures a new war against the Palestinian people, their capabilities and funds, and a war against the national authority, its survival and its achievements,” Shtayyeh said during his weekly Cabinet meeting.
“We have the right to complain and tell the world we are in pain,” he said in comments published in Haaretz earlier Monday. “Israel wants to prevent even the most non-violent way of fighting the occupation.”