The Gates of Qalqilia: A Testimony of the Brutal Israeli Occupation of Palestine

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(Qalqilia) Palestine News Network Thursday, 28 December 2006

Palestinian farmers are forced to enter their lands, isolated behind the Wall, through gates. Israeli occupation guards control movement and at gate number 1351 three miles south of Qaliqila a secondary school is just a few meters away.

The students bear-witness on a daily basis to the gates, the Wall, the behavior of Israeli occupation soldiers, and the Palestinian farmers who must submit in order to reach the land.

President of the Local Village Council, Abu Nidal, told PNN that Israeli soldiers target the students as well, insulting the late President Arafat and disallowing student passage. Soldiers have taken children's bicycles. Abu Nidal said it seems the that the soldiers cannot tolerate a young person with a smile on his face.

Palestinians are forced to wait for hours at times, while the Israeli soldiers talk amongst themselves and ignore those waiting to pass through this gate either to school or to the farm land. By all local accounts, if anyone calls out, the wait becomes longer.

Farmers must pass through X-ray machines to reach their lands, while the United Nations issued a report indicating that there are 26 gates along the 16 kilometer Wall in the northwestern West Bank Qalqilia District.

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Apartheid Wall


The Israeli Land-Grab Apartheid Wall built inside the Palestinian territories, here separating Abu Dis from occupied East Jerusalem. (IPC, 7/4/04).

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python (Alquds, 1/25/03.

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