willhelm said:

Patient dies due to terrorism, creatring the need for check points. [1]

That doesn't make sense for two reasons.

One, the checkpoint in question was between a Palestinian village and Nablus, a city in the West Bank. In other words, it was not a checkpoint that led into Israel.

Two, entry into Nablus was not totally blocked off by checkpoints--it just makes trips into Nablus take longer due to detours. It was because the taxi had to take a longer trip into Nablus that the sick passenger died in the taxi.

Three, according to the testimony the checkpoint was lifted a couple of hours lat...

willhelm said:

Patient dies due to terrorism, creatring the need for check points. [1]

That doesn't make sense for two reasons.

One, the checkpoint in question was between a Palestinian village and Nablus, a city in the West Bank. In other words, it was not a checkpoint that led into Israel.

Two, entry into Nablus was not totally blocked off by checkpoints--it just makes trips into Nablus take longer due to detours. It was because the taxi had to take a longer trip into Nablus that the sick passenger died in the taxi.

Three, according to the testimony the checkpoint was lifted a couple of hours later.

I don't see how any reasonable person can claim that a checkpoint within the Occupied Territories, that slows movement but does not totally obstruct it, and that is sporadic improves security for Israelis in any meaningful sense. Rather, it seems obvious to me that the checkpoints serve primarily a punitive function.

By the way, these checkpoints have been implicated in the deaths of newborns.

That is how it happened that a cancer patient was delayed for about an hour and a half at the Hawara checkpoint, until he died in a taxi that was not allowed to enter Nablus, a taxi in which he was trying to get from the hospital to his home, his final request. That is also what happened when the young woman in labor was forced to stand in the cold and the rain for about half an hour and to make her way on foot for several hundred meters while in labor. That's the procedure.

The death of cancer patient Taysir Kaisi was inevitable, but why in such pain, waiting endlessly in a "non-permitted" taxi at the checkpoint? And the young woman from Beit Furik who was about to give birth, Roba ...

That is how it happened that a cancer patient was delayed for about an hour and a half at the Hawara checkpoint, until he died in a taxi that was not allowed to enter Nablus, a taxi in which he was trying to get from the hospital to his home, his final request. That is also what happened when the young woman in labor was forced to stand in the cold and the rain for about half an hour and to make her way on foot for several hundred meters while in labor. That's the procedure.

The death of cancer patient Taysir Kaisi was inevitable, but why in such pain, waiting endlessly in a "non-permitted" taxi at the checkpoint? And the young woman from Beit Furik who was about to give birth, Roba Hanani, finally arrived at the hospital in Nablus and successfully gave birth there to her first child, but why with such torture? Why did they deserve it? What would we think if our loved ones were to die or suffer labor pains at a checkpoint separating the city and the village? Life and death are in the hands of the checkpoint: The story of the death of Taysir Kaisi and the birth of Raghad Hanani, between the Hawara checkpoint and the Beit Furik checkpoint, during an easing of restrictions at the checkpoints, less than an hour's drive from Tel Aviv, is a story that should disturb our equanimity. [1]