CHECKPOINT WATCH: TESTIMONIES FROM OCCUPIED PALESTINE
An edition of CHECKPOINT WATCH: TESTIMONIES FROM OCCUPIED PALESTINE (2005)
By YEHUDIT KIRSTEIN KESHET
Publish Date
2005
Publisher
ZED BOOKS
Language
und
Pages
182
Description:
This book is a critical exploration of Israel's curfew-closure policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories through the eyes of CheckpointWatch, an organization of Israeli women monitoring human rights abuses. The book combines observers' daily reports from the checkpoints and along the Separation Wall, with analysis of the bureaucracy that supports the ongoing occupation. Keshet demonstrates the link between Israeli bureaucracy and the closure system as integral to a wider project of ethnic cleansing. As co-founder of the group, Keshet critically reviews the organization's transformation fr.