Spotlight highlights Checkpoint events characteristic of the policy of the occupation: the systematic repudiation of basic human rights in the occupied territories. For Palestinians, reality is a complicated tangle of problems (survival in the everyday, education, health, making a living…) that cannot be solved because the Israeli occupation is conducted by enforcing countless inhuman bans. The Spotlights rely on collections of relevant reports from the field.
A Simple Story Becoming a Nightmare: A Via Dolorosa of Checkpoint and Arbitrary Road Bloc
Report date:
17/03/2008
Content:
A Simple Story Becoming a Nightmare:
A Via Dolorosa of Checkpoint and Arbitrary Road Bloc
The road of tribulation travelled by a man living with his family in the village of Sara
on the West Bank, working (with permit) in Kfar Sava, staying overnight on workdays in Qalqiliya. All that he wants – to travel mid-week (Wednesday) from his workplace in Israel to his home in Saara, to his six year old daughter’s party (honoured as outstanding in her school), and to return to work in Kfar Sava next morning (Thursday).
