The Israeli army forces Palestinian men to remove their cloths at a checkpoint near Jenin city

Friday August 29, 2008 11:39 by Ghassan Bannoura & IMEMC Staff

Israeli troops forced Palestinian men to undress in public then searched them at a checkpoint the soldiers have setup Thursday evening near the West Bank town of Qabatiya near Jenin, local sources reported.

Israeli army checkpoint in the West Bank - File 2007

According to the source, troops entered the town Thursday night, and setup the roadblock and stopped residents of Qabatiya entering or exiting the town. The checkpoint was removed on Friday morning.

There are currently over 500 checkpoints and roadblocks in the West Bank restricting the movement of Palestinians in their country.

Palestinians suffer systematic humiliation at these checkpoints almost on daily basis. Israeli officials have repeatedly declared that they will remove dozens of these roadblocks in order to ease the restrictions, however, many of these checkpoints and roadblocks remain in place.

Israeli Human Rights group B’Tselem said in a report published few months ago, that many of these roadblocks, which mostly are unmanned, have already been removed by local Palestinian residents, before Israel declares intentions to remove it.

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