Jewish-only roads running over Arab-only tracks: Israeli apartheid spreading

"For Naomi it is a supremely fast and convenient route to a meeting with her workers. Palestinians, like Walid face a fine for even walking on or across it, let alone driving on it."

It runs straight through the heart of the occupied West Bank, but Palestinians are not permitted even to set foot on the asphalt their ancestors laid. 02 January 2008
"My father helped to build this road. Now we can't use it and it takes us an hour and a half to get to Ramallah. It's unbelievable."

"the villagers will keep up their regular demonstrations against the closure, protests that deliberately eschew the involvement of the main Palestinian factions...the road is ours. This is very clear." But if not, he says, the protest organisers will no longer be able to confine the carefully marshalled protests to around 100 people. "There will be 37,000 people out here, blocking the road" he says.

Full story in Independent at Highway 443: Israel's forbidden road