Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians

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Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-cities-impose-beach-apartheid-palestinians

Three Israeli coastal cities are being slammed by a civil rights group for effectively banning Palestinians from their beaches.

Hadera, Netanya and Akka – known in English as Acre – are guilty of "apartheid initiatives that express a goal of achieving racial segregation," said a lawyer for the group Adalah.

Video shot by journalist Rafat Aker last week shows a busload of Palestinian men on an apparent day trip from the city of Jenin being denied access to the beach by police and local authorities.

You can watch the full video in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew below.

"The images seen in Akka leave no room for the imagination: Municipal inspectors forcibly expelled Palestinians outside city limits solely because they are Palestinian," Adalah lawyer Rabea Eghbariah said.

"The municipality is acting without any authority whatsoever," he added.

Adalah argues that local authorities are using the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to mask their apartheid policies against Palestinians.

The group, which advocates for equal Palestinian rights inside Israel, said that the men in the video appeared to have the correct permits and some had even been vaccinated.