The residents of the occupied West Bank live “in a cage”. As they describe the increasing Israeli checkpoints on the roads paralyzing traffic after the cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip. Whatsapp groups that share information about traffic in the West Bank are abuzz: in the messages, in front of the name of various checkpoints or intersections, more and more red signals appear. Passing is prohibited. “This started on the night of Sunday to Monday, we woke up to find that there is a metal fence on the roads leading to Jericho, Jerusalem and Nablus,” said Bashar Bassiel, a priest in Taybeh village, northeast of Ramallah. “On Monday nights people were coming back from Ramallah” after work and “stayed in their cars from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.,” he explained, explaining that the Israeli army searched the cars one by one. “We have not experienced a similar situation, so difficult” Many residents of the West Bank left their jobs […]
Source: News Beast
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