Jerusalem/PNN/

Palestinians in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhoods of Jabal al-Mukaber, Anata, Al-Isawiya, Shufat and Al-Ram embarked today on civil disobedience and a one-day general strike in protest of the Israeli repression measures against Palestinians in the city.

The civil disobedience includes a shutdown of the entrances to the four neighborhoods and a boycott of the Israeli occupation by all possible means, including refusing to pay taxes and calling on workers who work for Israeli employers not to go to their workplaces.

Confrontations between Israeli occupation forces and Palestinian protesters were reported this morning in Jabal al-Mukaber and Al-Isawiya neighborhoods, shortly after the civil disobedience came into effect.

The Palestinian National and Islamic Forces said in a press statement yesterday that the civil disobedience measures include calling on Palestinian workers not to go to their workplaces in Israel, refusing to pay taxes to the Israeli authorities and the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem, closing the road leading to the Shuafat camp checkpoint, and closing the entrance to Anata town.

The civil disobedience comes in response to the daily crimes of the Israeli occupation government against our people in Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied territories, including extrajudicial killings, arrests, and home demolitions.

It also comes against the backdrop of the almost daily Israeli police and military raids on the Palestinian refugee camp of Shuafat, in occupied Jerusalem, and the adjoining town of Anata.