NOVANEWS
Posted by Sammi Ibrahem,Sr
‘Qalandiya Report’ records just nine minutes out of the long hours Palestinian civilians spend every day in the long, slow-moving queues at the army checkpoint gates in Qalandiya.
The Qalandiya checkpoint is not exceptional. There are dozens more like it in the West Bank. These do not separate the state of Israel and the occupied territories, but are placed deep within Palestinian territory, cutting off one village from another and one town from its neighbour. With no other apparent reason for their existence, one has to conclude that the sole purpose of these checkpoints is to impose hardship on the inhabitants’ lives, deny them freedom of movement, and imprison them in segregated, restricted territorial cells.
The queue seen in the film is the one the occupation authorities call ‘the humanitarian queue’.
