Tag Archives: Huwwara

Tristeza não tem fim, Felicidade sim

Posted on January 8, 2010 by yaara

        Huwwara Checkpoint, south of Nablus, today, January 7, 2010, 3pm:   The pedestrian waiting point is empty. For six months now there hasn’t been a requirement for the tasrikh, the permit for vehicular passage through the … Continue reading →

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Critical Reading

Posted on July 7, 2009 by yaara

(This post was published in Hebrew on July 1st. Its translation was delayed due to technical problems – Aryeh) I went today (June 30) on a tour following Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff’s report (Haaretz, June 24, 2009) that following … Continue reading →

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A Post for Passover

Posted on April 7, 2009 by yaara

  The closure on the West Bank went into effect yesterday (Monday, April 6) at midnight, and will end on Saturday night (April 18). Below: an enslaved Palestinian.     I took this on March 19, 2009, at the gate … Continue reading →

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The Cheek on the Pillow

Posted on February 25, 2009 by yaara

                   An arm of iron was posted on the road leading to the villages of Beit Furik and Beit Dajan (both photos were taken on Tuesday, February 10 2009):                    Similar iron arms were constructed lately in other … Continue reading →

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Time is Pressing

Posted on February 22, 2009 by yaara

                                          This morning, 10:30am, the entry line at the central bus station in Jerusalem became very long. The security guard was especially slow. A line of sixteen people, I counted them, was especially impatient: “You think we’ve got all … Continue reading →

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Checkpoint 101: with photos

Posted on February 11, 2009 by yaara

      At first, the soldiers called the detention facility “Jorah” (an Arab word meaning pithole, used in colloquial Hebrew for sewage). Every checkpoint has its Jorah. It is a quadrangular concrete fence, of various sizes, according to what … Continue reading →

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