Summer 2003: Villages Group activist Ya'akov Manor with a Palestinian medic whose ambulance is held up at the Beit Furik checkpoint.
Summer 2003: the Beit Furik checkpoint, at that time the only allowed entry and exit point to the Salem - Deir El Hattab - Azmout area. This open-air prison situation continued until late 2004. In the picture, Villages Group activists try to convince soldiers to let people through.
Summer 2003: queue at Beit Furik checkpoint, the only exit/entry point of three Palestinian villages with 11,000 residents
Summer 2006: Khirbet Tana, a cave-dweller hamlet in South Hebron region, destroyed by the army.
Spring 2005: Ahmed Issa of Salem was shot in the knee by a soldier at an improvised checkpoint near his village. Ahmed asked the soldier to let his car through since he had a small baby in it. The soldier refused and told Ahmed to walk back to his car. Ahmed obeyed, but as he walked the soldier shot him.
The road between Azmout (background) and the Nablus refugee camps. Though formally re-opened for Palestinian traffic since 2004, sometimes the army places improvised checkpoints there. This is where Ahmed Issa was shot by soldiers in 2005.
