OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (Alresalah.ps)– Heroin addiction is spreading rapidly in East Jerusalem and surrounding towns, fuelled by poverty and lack of security, according to many news reports.
The reports focus on the town of Al Ram, close to Israel’s Separation Barrier. Once a lively suburb of Jerusalem, it says that since 2006 it has been locked out by the Barrier, which surrounds it on three sides. “The effect of this sudden disconnection from the city has been devastating,” the report asserted. “One-third of all businesses have been forced to close, 75 per cent of youths under 24 are unemployed, and around half of the town’s 62,000 residents have been denied the ID they require to enter Jerusalem.” Read more
Editors’ Note:
It is interesting to know that a spokesman from Housing Ministry of Israel disclosed last week the intentions to invite tenders for the construction of more than 800 new homes in two neighbourhoods of annexed East Jerusalem.
Categories: Israel, Middle East, Muslim Heritage
Should this not be treated as a ‘Crime against Humanity’? and referred to the International Criminal Court?
Israel controls everything. No bullet can get into the Arab villages. How come the drugs get through?