Tulkarm

Army tightens travel bans in West Bank

• Report rights infringement
• published: 21 Jul 2015
• views: 3

West Bank 1. Israeli soldier standing on highpoint overlooking empty road 2. Roadblock with sanbags 3. Pan from Israeli flag on highpoint to empty road below 4. Empty main road 5. Set up vox pop 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, Palestinian: "Yesterday they turned us back. I want to go home, my home is here (points) and they're (Israeli army) not letting me go there." 7. UN car driving past 8. Sign with Ramallah and Shekhem indicated Kalandia roadblock, entrance to Ramallah 9. Various of people walking through roadblock 10. Israeli army checking papers of lorry driver 11. Roadblock with people walking through Ramallah, West Bank 12. Deserted street 13. Children playing on pavement 14. Rubbish piling up in bin 15. Deserted street with rubbish strewn around Jerusalem 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Shek, senior Israeli government spokesman: "In the aftermath of a very bloody day yesterday in Israel, the Israeli government has a riddle to solve: 'how with this unbroken chain of terror, can we get back to negotiations and easing the humanitarian situation in the territories?' Those are the goals we've had in the last couple of months, but they seem unattainable unless we can get terror out of the way - that is the challenge today and the Palestinian Authority has a deep responsibility to do so: crack down on terrorists instead of encouraging them." Gaza 17. Various tanks blocking road behind pile of earth 18. People at side walking and watching 19. Pan from roadblock to people at side 20. Deserted road STORYLINE: Israel on Monday announced a total ban on Palestinian travel in much of the West Bank and sealed off a chunk of the Gaza Strip with tanks in response to Palestinian attacks on Israelis that killed 13 people over 24 hours. Under the new ban, the Israeli army said that Palestinians would not be able to drive in the northern half of the West Bank, between the towns of Nablus, Jenin, Qalqiliya, Tulkarem and Ramallah. Some movement would be permitted in the southern West Bank, including the towns of Hebron, Bethlehem and Jericho. Stringent restrictions on Palestinian travel have been in place since the outbreak of fighting in September 2000, with Palestinians confined to their communities for extended periods as Israeli troops tried to prevent attacks on Israelis. Palestinians trying to get to jobs and schools often use dirt roads to get around military checkpoints. The military said the announcement of the total ban meant that existing blockades would be strictly enforced. Exemptions would be made in humanitarian cases. Speaking in Jerusalem, an Israeli government spokesman said that the Palestinian Authority had a deep responsibility to crack down on terrorists instead of encouraging them. In Gaza, about 25 tanks took up positions on the main north-south road, cutting off the town of Rafah and an adjacent refugee camp from the rest of the Strip. The army said it imposed the blockade to prevent attacks on Israelis. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e44f7f46fff854451559cb7eb43b8cac Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork