allenby bridge

Palestinians walk through the kilometer-long caged terminal through the "no-go zone" between Israel's Erez Crossing and Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, December 18, 2013. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills)

A walk through Israel’s ever-evolving checkpoint regime

The Erez Crossing into Gaza brought back memories of how, from Allenby to Qalandiya, Israel is constantly redesigning its structures of domination.

By Fatima AbdulKarim June 3, 2022

Demonstration in support of administrative detainees, Jaffa, Israel. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills)

Palestinian journalist to spend four more months in Israeli detention

High-profile Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal has been arrested on terror charges that Israel considers classified and therefore neither he nor his lawyer can see. The army issued an order to keep him in jail for another four months – without trial. The Israel Defense Forces issued on Monday a four-month order for the administrative detention…

By Haggai Matar May 2, 2016

Khaled Jarrar (Susanne Hakuba, courtesy of Gallery Ayyam)

Israel bars prominent Palestinian artist from traveling to N.Y. exhibit

Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar travels regularly to exhibit and discuss his art. This time, the Israeli army simply said no, you can’t go. Khaled Jarrar, a prominent Palestinian artist based in Ramallah, was supposed to be in New York by now for an exhibit at the New Museum, a Manhattan hotspot for contemporary art. Except Israel isn’t letting him…

By Noa Yachot July 14, 2014

Latest

Palestinians wait at the Allenby bridge border crossing. (By Bassam Almohor)

Leaving Palestine: ‘Give ’em something to talk about’

A fleeting moment of romance in grueling border terminal that devours you alive — and yet you don’t die. A day at the Allenby border crossing. (Read part one of this series here.) By Bassam Almohor “Saqallah ala ayyam zaman (I long for the old times) when we used to travel all over el blad…

By +972 Magazine May 30, 2014

A voice calling in the wilderness: A journey to the ‘Castle of the Jews’

Five hundred words and three photos from one place. This time: a church in the middle of a minefield, water you can walk on, an international border with no soldiers and a legal limbo that wouldn’t make sense anywhere else. What is the strangest place in the world? Depends how you define “strange.” In English, one…

By Yuval Ben-Ami May 29, 2014

Entry permit for Palestinians entering the West Bank

New entry permits grant Israeli nationality to Palestinian, but without the rights

On February 4, 2013, a Palestinian resident of the West Bank received this entry permit when he crossed the Allenby Bridge from Jordan. The big blue letters at the top inform the holder that the State of Israel’s Border Patrol has granted him entry, making it look as though the territory he was entering —…

By Lisa Goldman February 7, 2013

New Wikileaks cable shows Israel’s West Bank blockade

In a 2009 cable, American diplomats complain that Israel is not issuing work visas for Palestinian companies’ foreign employees While most people who follow the news from Israel and the Palestinian territories know well enough that Israel blocks travel to and from Gaza, it is always surprising how few are aware that all exists and…

By Noam Sheizaf August 27, 2011