Jaba (Lil)
Translator: Charles K.
Here’s how they use the dogs:
1. A vehicle from the Oketz unit parks next to the checkpoint. Soldiers descend from the pillbox and erect a barrier. The dog handler, a female soldier, instructs them which vehicles to stop.
2. The victim must get out of the vehicle, stand to one side and watch his property be appropriated for military purposes:
3. The dog is brought inside, outside and all about:
4. The dog handler notices the camera, says she’s classified, like a pilot, and orders the soldiers to prevent me from photographing her:
5. Tomer, the commander, ordered me not to photograph the dog handler, who’s like a pilot.
But I don’t discriminate by gender, rank, unit or specialization – I photograph all of them, every one, every single one, each and every one – that’s what I tell them and will keep telling them whenever I meet them here.
They assigned a soldier who stood next to me for an hour, much too close, to hide the dog handler from me and my camera, during which time three victims were inspected:
After they’d merged into the eastbound traffic, the fourth victim was stopped.
The man who was required to leave his vehicle saw us and shouted [in English]: “They searching me!”
Perhaps he understood that we (and not they) hear and see him – and at this place, at this moment, in this situation – what more could he ask?
Jaba' (Lil)
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Jaba' (Lil) In fact, the Jaba checkpoint is east of the Qalandiya checkpoint. Its declared purpose is the prevention of Israeli citizens from entering Area A. A road checkpoint for vehicles, located on Road 65, borders the southern fence of Kfar Jaba, about three kilometers east of the Qalandiya checkpoint, on the road leading to the settlement of Adam on Road 60. Archaeological excavations within the village found the remains of a cloth house from the First Temple period. The events that led to the construction of the checkpoint are precisely here: on the day of the abduction of Gilad Shalit and before the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War, a 17-year-old man from one of the settlements was abducted by a Palestinian cell. His body was found several days later at the entrances to Ramallah. A military investigation revealed that his abductors had taken him along this route. The checkpoint was set up to prevent future kidnappings and to warn settlers from traveling to Ramallah and entering Area A (which is forbidden for Israelis). The checkpoint that operates around the clock. Usually only vehicles traveling in the direction of Ramallah are inspected. (November 2016): Every morning, when the settlers en masse travel to Jerusalem on Route 60 and every afternoon they return from Jerusalem on Route 60, the army initiates a traffic jam at the entrance to the Jaba checkpoint and stops the movement of Palestinians traveling toward Route 60. (February 2020): In the last two years the checkpoint has not always been manned. Sometimes the soldiers come and just stand, sometimes they come and stop and check those who enter the village, sometimes they patrol the alleys of the village, sometimes they fire stun grenades and gas and sometimes they invade houses and stop young people, say those passing through the Hazma checkpoint. (Updated February 2020)
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