Hamra checkpoint is one of the five checkpoints that close the Jordan Valley from the rest of the West Bank. It is located on the way to Tubas, at the entrance of Frush Beddajan village, in the central Jordan Valley.

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Jordan Valley Solidarity volunteers cross this checkpoint everyday.

On the 2nd January 2011, a young man from Tubas was killed by the occupation forces at Hamar checkpoint, two JVS volunteers were witnesses.

Ahmad Musulmani was killed on 2nd January 2011 by the occupation forces at Hamra checkpoint on his way from Tubas to the Jordan Valley.

One of our volunteers heard, while he was crossing the checkpoint with his car, the soldier saying to Musulmani, “bakuk ! ” (bottle in hebrew) and then shooting, two times.

The other JVS volunteer, crossing by foot, saw another soldier shooting on Musulmani 5 or 6 times while he was laying on the ground.

 

The second martyr, Khaldon Samoudi, was killed one week after. The occupation forces say that he was carrying explosives and said “Allah Wakbar” (God is the greatest in Arabic).

The Bedouin community that lives beside the checkpoint says that the young man was just walking toward the checkpoint, without doing nothing special.

The same morning several JVS volunteers crossed Hamra checkpoint and noticed an unusual high numbers of soldiers at the checkpoint. They were training, one showing his identity card, the other one pretending to shoot him.

It was clear for us that something would happen this day.

One of our volunteer reached the place just after Samoudi from Yamoun, beside Jenin, was killed.

Here are his pictures :

After they killed the young man, the army undressed him with a robot and left him on the ground.

Finally, the Palestinian ambulance was allowed to reach the body after the Israeli army opened the area.