Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An Israel Border Police checkpoint at Jericho's southern entrance, 2005 Map of West Bank checkpoints in 2020. An Israeli checkpoint (Hebrew: מחסום, romanized: makhsóm; Arabic: حاجز, romanized: ḥājiz) is a barrier erected by the Israeli Security Forces, primarily today part of the system of West Bank closures in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The checkpoint was opened to allow pedestrians to cross freely without being searched. [3] Palestinian vehicles have sometimes faced random inspections. [1] In 2011, Israeli newspapers reported that the checkpoint would be removed, [4] but according to the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq, the checkpoint is still in use as of 2014. [5]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Israeli checkpoints" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 ...
Checkpoint 300. Checkpoint 300 (Arabic: حاجز 300, romanized: Ḥājiz 300, Hebrew: מחסום 300, romanized: Machsom 300), also known as the Bethlehem checkpoint, the Gilo Checkpoint, or the Rachel's Tomb checkpoint, is a major Israel Defense Forces checkpoint at one of the main exits of Bethlehem. [1]
Palestinian educator Tarik Betar has known only a life of repression and indignity, he told CNN, with longstanding restrictions, checkpoints and curfews, put in place by the Israeli military in ...
The 2011 Israeli border demonstrations started on 15 May 2011, to commemorate what the Palestinians observe as Nakba Day. Various groups of people attempted to approach or breach Israel's borders from the Palestinian-controlled territory, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan. At least a dozen people were killed when protesters attempted to cross ...
New Israeli checkpoints have turned a 15-minute drive to the Palestinian city of Ramallah into a nauseating two-hour maze. In recent months, Israeli troops repeatedly stormed the village. An ...
The Israeli government said the number is closer to 1,800 people. Israel recently released 240 of its Palestinian detainees, all women and teenagers, as part of its hostage and ceasefire deal with ...