WATCH: Barbecue at the checkpoint? Why not

Following a wave of stabbing attacks in Jerusalem, Israeli security forces erected checkpoints and barriers at the entrance to many of the city’s Palestinian neighborhoods, causing untold hardship to the vast majority of residents who had nothing to do with the violence. How would you feel if you found infantry officers holding a barbecue at the checkpoint sealing to your neighborhood?

Read more on the situation in Jerusalem:
‘East Jerusalem youth no longer distinguish between life and death’
Jerusalem becoming mini-police state and ghost capital