No town in the West Bank suffers more restrictions than Qalqilya. The population is surrounded on all four sides by the wall, which separates them from their farmland and source of income. Nearby a large Israeli settlement plunders more essential resources. Worse still is the security which accompanies these structures, with dozens of checkpoints policing the town and nearby villages. Many of these serve no purpose at all, closing months after they appear, often in bizarre locations between Arabic villages
Thanks for posting this. The story of this village is awful.
ReplyDeleteAt one point there was one checkpoint in and out of town which at times was closed for weeks, and at other times opened three times a day for 45 minutes. I don't know what the schedule is like now.
It makes my blood boil because it makes no sense at all. Those checkpoints have no purpose other than to humiliate and to remind the villagers that they're in a prison. It's 'leave or suffer or die slowly'!
ReplyDeleteThese Zionists really truly need their heads knocked off
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