Qalqilya: Prison City
Palestine Monitor | 03.10.2009 11:52 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Repression | World
No town in the West Bank suffers more restrictions than Qalqilya. The population is surrounded on all four sides by the wall, which separates them from their farmland and source of income. Nearby a large Israeli settlement plunders more essential resources. Worse still is the security which accompanies these structures, with dozens of checkpoints policing the town and nearby villages.
We’re at Ras-A-Tira checkpoint, a couple of miles south of town. Dalya, 80, and Tom, a professional cellist, are my guides. Dalya has spent the past seven years monitoring checkpoints and knows the ones around Qalqilya particularly well. “We have heard a man has been handcuffed since 6.30am by the head of the checkpoint. The soldier says he attacked them but very many witnesses say it’s because he yelled at them after they pushed his old father and daughter.”
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