CPTnet
24 December 2005
AT-TUWANI: Israeli military constructs three roadblocks on the road from
At-Tuwani to Yatta
Shortly after 7:00 a.m. on 17 December the Israeli military arrived at the
entrance of the village of At-Tuwani and began constructing roadblocks on
the road from At-Tuwani to Yatta with a military front-end loader. The
military placed three roadblocks along a 500 meter stretch of road just
north of where the Palestinian road crosses the Israeli bypass road 317.
The roadblocks consisted of large rocks
and topsoil taken from the surrounding plowed and planted fields.
The front-end loader operator not only piled up rocks and dirt for the
roadblocks, but also dug trenches, ripping up the asphalt road. When the
military finished approximately two hours later, the road was completely
impassible. This road is one of the few that Palestinians from the
villages south of 317 have to access hospitals
and markets in the more populated area of Yatta. Photos of the incident are
available online at:
http://www.cpt.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=road_block
In addition to making the road impassible, soldiers in the jeep that was
accompanying the front-end loader didn't allow people to walk across the
road into At-Tuwani. Soldiers turned two At-Tuwani schoolteachers coming
from Yatta away; they entered the village later after the soldiers left.
According to people from the village, children from the Palestinian
village of Suseya were unable to attend school in At-Tuwani today because
the road closures throughout the South Hebron Hills made the drive to
At-Tuwani impossible. The closures in the area are a response to a
drive-by shooting on byapass road 60 that killed an Israeli settler from
the Beit Haggai settlement.
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