Qalqilya Check Point

P. Miller, on January 23, 2007, said:

This is the checkpoint into Qalqilya from the Palestine side. It is the only way in or out of this entire city. Trucks transporting goods into the city are not allowed in and must stop here and unload their goods to a truck from a town only a few minutes away. Imagine how expensive, time consuming, and humiliating this must be. The town is dying as its economic life with the neighboring community has been cut off.

nathe44851, on March 10, 2008, said:

To P Miller sir I dont know where you live (maybe in cloud KOOKOO land)the only reason for vehicals to be inspected is because of weapons & explosived smuggled into these Palistinian towns to be used against Israeli Civilians,only last month amongst a truckload of baking flower was 3 1/2 tons of PLASTIC EXPLOSIVE so was that to make fireworks to celebrate another suicide attack PLEASE WAKE UP TO THE FACTS OF LIFE

P. Miller, on April 5, 2008, said:

In his important book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe relates how Qalqilya was targeted for capture and ethnic cleansing back in 1948 by the Zionist forces. Fortunately, they failed, but I believe Qalqilya is still in the gun sights of Israel's colonial expansion. Just look at all the illegal Israeli Jewish only settlements that surround the poor town.

The wall is completely illegal where it is built on Palestinian land. It is terrible that Israel has tied its own "security" to projects that ensure the Palestinians remain existentially insecure.

What is happening in Qalqilya and all over the Palestinian territories is an attempt at slow motion ethnic cleansing by economic and social strangulation.

Collective punishment is completely illegal under international law and Israel is in violation of many aspects of the Geneva conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human rights.