(10 Feb 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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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. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdullah Fauzi, banker from Nablus: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT 1 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 2++
"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".
4. Car stopped at Atara checkpoint, UPSOUND cars honking
5. Wide of closed metal gate across road at Atara
6. Wide of long line of cars at Atara checkpoint
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Container checkpoint, Sawahrah, West Bank – 4 February 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khader al Walaja, resident of Jericho: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT 4 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 5-6 & 8-9++
"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."
8. Sign reading (in Hebrew, Arabic, English) "slow, barrier ahead"
9. Line of cars stopped at Container Checkpoint
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Ramallah, West Bank – 2 February 2025
10. Ministry of National Economy building
11. Sign reading (in Arabic, English) "State of Palestine, Ministry of National Economy"
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Alamour, Palestinian Economy Minister: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT10 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 11&13-16++
"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
13. Various of cars and trucks moving slowly at Ein Senia checkpoint
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DCO checkpoint, Ramallah, West Bank – 29 January 2025
14. Various of cars stopped at DCO checkpoint north of Ramallah city
15. Sign for Nablus and Jerusalem
16. Wide of DCO checkpoint north of Ramallah
STORYLINE:
Abdullah Fauzi, a banker from the northern West Bank city of Nablus, leaves home at 4 a.m. to reach his
job by 8, and even so, he’s often late.
Before Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, 2023, when Israel launched its offensive in the Gaza Strip, his commute used to take an hour.
Since then, the Israeli military has ramped up raids against Palestinian militants in the northern West Bank and diverted its residents through seven new checkpoints, doubling Fauzi’s time on the road.
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