(10 Feb 2025)
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Jaba checkpoint, Jaba, West Bank – 4 February 2025
1. Various of long line of cars stopped at Jaba checkpoint for inspection
2. Top shot of line of cars
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Atara checkpoint, Atara, West Bank – 2 February 2025
3. Car stopped at Atara checkpoint, UPSOUND cars honking
4. Wide of closed metal gate across road at Atara
5. Women walking passed closed iron gate
6. Wide of long line of cars at Atara checkpoint
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdullah Fauzi, banker from Nablus:
"If things (are) moving smoothly, it’s going to take half an hour. So we’re taking about six hours to reach there sometimes and you may not reach. You may have to change the road and it’s, as I mentioned before, it’s not guaranteed. You have to reach, a lot of risk in the road. So you may see how it’s a jam, traffic jam every day, because people are lost. They don’t know where to go. They don’t know what to do. They don’t know how to plan. Imagine that’s your priority is to plan your day, plan the road every day, learn the street, to plan which road you have to go. Actually, we’re living, unfortunately, in a hell. We’re living in hell."
8. Fauzi driving his car at Atara checkpoint
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdullah Fauzi, banker from Nablus:
"I was thinking today to move back when I saw the road how it is. But living here, you have to think about taking hotel, taking apartment, paying extra cost. You’re not seeing your family for that day. There are necessary actions you need to move. You don’t have time to play sport. You don’t have to go to gym. You don’t have time to go to gym. You don’t have time to read. You don’t have time to plan and sit at home for working on a laptop. It’s just the road, it’s just thinking about how to go out of the cities, from Ramallah to Nablus."
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Container checkpoint, Sawahrah, West Bank – 4 February 2025
10. Sign reading (in Hebrew, Arabic, English) "slow, barrier ahead"
11. Line of cars stopped at Container Checkpoint
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khader al Walaja, resident of Jericho:
"We are coming from Jericho and heading to Bethlehem, to the village of Al-Walaja because my cousin has passed away and we are going to offer our condolences. We have been sitting here for about an hour, and we do not know how much longer we will need. This is all unjust and wrong. We have work to do and our own homes to take care of. This is not right – it is a mistake, and we are not to blame for any of this."
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Ramallah, West Bank – 2 February 2025
13. Ministry of National Economy building
14. Sign reading (in Arabic, English) "State of Palestine, Ministry of National Economy"
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Alamour, Palestinian Economy Minister:
"There are approximately 900 checkpoints in the West Bank. These barriers do everything except their stated purpose of providing security, as their presence does not enhance Israel’s security or contribute to the stability of the region. Instead, they serve as a tool to exert pressure on the Palestinian people, undermine the Palestinian economy, and negatively impact the psychological well-being of individuals. They pressure the Palestinian people and the Palestinian economy. These checkpoints are designed to create hardship, pushing Palestinians to consider leaving their homeland and seeking solutions elsewhere, ultimately aiming to displace and disperse them from their country."
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Ein Senia checkpoint, Ein Senia, West Bank – 29 January 2025
16. Various of cars and trucks moving slowly at Ein Senia checkpoint
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