Residents of Isawiyah, a Palestinian village in northeastern Jerusalem, announce a general strike today in protest at the closing of three out of four entries to the village.
They are also protesting the exhaustive security checks residents must undergo when they come and go in the one entry left open, Israel Radio reports.
The strike includes schools, public transportation and all workers outside the village who live in Isawiyah.
Palestinian media yesterday said a 65-year-old woman died when she was stuck in traffic en route to a hospital after she was lightly injured when she inhaled tear gas.
There have been numerous riots in Isawiyah, a village of some 20,000 residents, in recent weeks. Fadi Aloun, who was shot and killed outside the Old City on October 3 after stabbing an Israeli, was a resident of Isawiyah.
File: A police guard stands near the gas station in Jerusalem’s French Hill, near the entrance to the village of Isawiyah neighborhood on September 9, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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