Qalandia, 9 Decembre 2005
(c) Anne Paq
9 decembre 2005,
le checkpoint de qalandia est ferme pour trois jours a la suite de l assassinat d un soldat israelien au checkpoint de qalandia ce jeudi soir.
Une pure illustration de punition collective, mesures interdites selon le droit international. Les Palestiniens arrivent quand meme a passer de Jerusalem a Ramallah mais en faisant des grands detours. Beaucoup renoncent et aujourd hui au bureau il y a beaucoup d'absents.
ENGLISH
Qalandia checkpoint has been closed for three days following the assassination of an Israeli soldier at the checkpoint on Thursday night. Closure is a perfect illustration of collective punishment. You cannot punish a whole nation for the act of one. Qalandia is the main entrance of the West Bank. everyday tousands of Palestinians cross the checkpoint in order to go to work or go home.
Closing the checkpoint does not prevent the Palestinians to go through. There are ways to go around the checkppoint but it is time-consuming and some just give up. So today many of my colleagues are missing.
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