International Checkpoint Watch - Daily Observations
Date:
22 July 2001
Time: 17:15-19:00
17:15
Soldiers
are letting cars through from both directions without checking them.
17:20
Soldiers
begin checking cars.
17:23
16 cars
are lined up from Birzeit trying to enter Ramallah. All cars going to Ramallah
are being stopped. A car registered to the Palestinian Authority is stopped and
its occupants’ papers are checked.
17.25
Soldiers
let some cars through, while randomly checking others.
17:35
Soldiers throw the IDs they are checking to eachother.
18:26
A car
containing 4 men is detained and the men are ordered out.
Soldiers check the passengers’ IDs and the trunk and then release them.
18:37
A
service taxi is detained.
18:36
A car
with 2 men and 3 women is held.
18:37
A car
with 4 men is held, IDs are checked
.
18:41
A car with 4 men is held, IDs
are checked.
18:44
A
service is held
18:49
A
service is held.
18:50
Service is held.
Car with 2
men is held, IDs and trunk are checked.
18:55
Service is held and its passengers IDs
are checked.