Total closure (Will continue for
another 9 days.). The soldiers said that only doctors and sick
people can go through. southbound. Children can go to. school, but
teachers cannot…. . We were not allowed at the checking area. One
of the soldiers said. that. “After the mess you caused few
days ago, these are the new. instructions”.. . Passage rule
are very strict, with no flexibility whatsoever. We did. manage to
help one man who is. in charge of laboratory for blood tests in
A-ram. . . Taxi parking area south of the checkpoint is blocked
since yesterday. The DCO said. it will remain so until the end of
the current closure and. it was done in order to distance
Palestinians from the checkpoint after the. suicide bomber in
Tulkarm’s DCO. Meanwhile taxis are loading on the road. itself more
than usual, which is dangerous as well as causing traffic
jams..