Ras 'Atiya, Tue 16.3.10, Morning

Place:

Ras 'Atiya

Tags:

Children

Seam Zone

Observers:

Tom K., Smadar B.

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Mar-16-2010

Morning

Translator: Louise Levi

On Navas request Tom and I went to Ras Attiya in order to find out what is happening there.

We arrived at 7.15. It looked as if the children were passing all right. However, the teachers remained at the checkpoint and refused to enter. We met one of the fathers who told us that there had been no school for three days. Evidently there was no school yesterday as well.

We left at 8.00. The situation had not changed since our arrival and nothing else out of the ordinary took place.

Location Description

Ras 'Atiya

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The checkpoint is presently on the Separation Barrier roadway, manned and open 12 hours a day, from 6:30 to 18:30. West of it is the large Seam Line village whose school is attended by children from the nearby villages east of the Barrier and many of whose inhabitants have permits to work in Israel. How long this checkpoint will remain in place is unknown, since construction of the Separation Wall, just by the settlement of Alfe Menashe, east of the present Separation Barrier, is endless, as is the creation of a new road and, obviously, a new checkpoint.