A Palestinian man is crushed to death at an Israeli Checkpoint. http://t.co/nsXhI2jD4D Here is what it looks like pic.twitter.com/zCMqugZ9Kh
— Yousef Munayyer (@YousefMunayyer) January 6, 2014
Ma’an news reports a man was crushed to death on Sunday at the Ephraim/Taybeh checkpoint near the Palestinian city of Tulkarem in the West Bank. He was on his way to work.
Witnesses told Ma’an that 59-year-old Adel Muhammad Yakoub from the northern West Bank village of Balaa died as a result of extreme overcrowding inside the Ephraim/Taybeh checkpoint.
They highlighted that some 10,000 Palestinian workers cross through the checkpoint every day and that inspection procedures at the checkpoint go very slowly causing dangerous levels of overcrowding inside the checkpoint.
The victim left behind a wife and seven children, aged 11-16. He is reported to have suffered from heart disease.
Disgusting and predictable murder by the zionists.
RE: “Ma’an news reports a man was crushed to death on Sunday at the Ephraim/Taybeh checkpoint near the Palestinian city of Tulkarem in the West Bank.” ~ Annie Robbins
MY COMMENT: Looking at that photo of Palestinians waiting to pass through the Ephraim/Taybeh checkpoint, I am reminded of the “chutes” they run cattle through at feed lots and such (except that the ones for cattle are sometimes nicer). There too, I think there are a few deaths in the process.
FROM WIKIPEDIA [The Cattle Call]:
SOURCE – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cattle_Call
● The Original CATTLE CALL by Tex Owens 1934 [VIDEO, 03:02] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxSqD79TU_Y
it’s mindcrunching how humanity accepts this as a permanent situation.
some days are harder than others. a wife and 7 children. he was still young. it’s unbearable thinking of their loss.
http://greennumberplate.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/228/
“This morning is worst than usual. The soldier controlling the first turnstile keeps locking it every few minutes. The bars rebound jarringly in the face of an old man and the queue halts for the fifth time. The crush of bodies intensifies for the next 20 minutes. Men begin shouting and complaining. Many climb over the top of the cage and queue-jump through gaps in the corrugated tin roof, desperate not to miss their busses and lose a day’s pay. When the turnstile finally opens again, 500 men surge through in 10 minutes calling ‘Yalla, yalla!’ (Go,go) to those ahead. One man stumbles, falls and is nearly trampled by the crowd pushing up behind. He is saved by another man who braces himself across the line whilst others haul the man to his feet.
I ring the military ‘Humanitarian Hotline’ three times. The soldier answering tells me it is a new unit on duty today and they don’t know what they are doing. After a few minutes two armed security guards appear from the main terminal to reinforce the soldier, rather than help people in the cage. I speak to the guards from my observation spot alongside the cage, asking them to do something before someone gets trampled or crushed. One of the new security guards finally turns and yells at me, motioning towards the crowd in the cage, ‘You do something! This is not Israel!’ as if the it is the behaviour of the Palestinians that is the problem. ‘That’s right!’ I respond in astonishment at this admission, ‘This is not Israel – it is Palestine! But Israel built the checkpoint and (Separation) Wall’. He turns his back on me.”
This year is International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/2014-international-year-of-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people
Humm how could palestinian hate Israel? Why is that? How can that be huh?