Watch: Film imagines army checkpoints in London

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A new short film transposes Israel’s movement restrictions on Palestinians in the occupied territories to London.

In No Way Through a man drives through London in a desperate attempt to reach a hospital, after an ambulance is blocked by soldiers from reaching the scene of an accident.

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...there were 578 Israeli barriers and checkpoints inside the West Bank, excluding crossing points on the Green Line.

... Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, reported that it and other rights groups are petitioning the Israeli government to cancel rules that delay ambulances from reaching Palestinians in East Jerusalem.

...In many cases, patients face long delays in receiving treatment, and must be transferred by their own family’s cars, risking complications or increased severity of illness, the rights advocates say. Full story