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Birzeit University Right To Education Campaign Photo & Video Flying checkpoint in Surda, again Magne Hagesaeter, PAS Student at Birzeit University, Right to Education Campaign, 19 May 2006 On Thursday, 18 May 2006, many flying checkpoints appeared on Palestinian land, again. Surda checkpoint, between Birzeit and Ramallah was one of them. Cars were stuck for several hours and people had to walk from between Ramallah and Surda for several kilometres. Old people, students, mothers and children walked in the heat to get past the soldiers patrolling the flying checkpoint. The concept of a flying checkpoint is that a few military cars stop in the middle of the road, block the road to cars and sometimes people, for a limited amount of time, often a full day. If the occupation-army decides to, people have to stand in a line, show their ID-cards, strip their clothes, or succumb to other humiliating things. You never know what. Palestinians are used to walking passed the around 400 checkpoints that already exist in the occupied West Bank. At least they know that they are there. Flying checkpoints create more uncertainty and frustration because they make it impossible to carry out the tasks people have planned, weather it is to go to school, to work, visit a friend or buy the necessary goods.
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