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	B'Tselem - Testimony of Muhammad 'Omar, September 2003
		In the framework of my job, I go to the Surda checkpoint with a stretcher, to transport people who are sick across the checkpoint and give first aid to whomever needs it.
		The northern end of the checkpoint is across from the village of Surda and the other end is at the entrance to Ramallah and al-Bira.
		The testimony was taken by Iyad Hadad at the Surda checkpoint on 18 September 2003.
	www.btselem.org /English/Testimonies/20030916_Beating_of_Muhammad_Omar_in_Surda.asp (635 words)

	NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When you are standing on the edge of the hill overlooking Surda checkpoint, you can see a miracle - something which is unlike anything else, an epitome of the ways of the occupation, the way in which people are treated in their every day life.
		The situation at the Surda checkpoint is transforming every day into a surrealist picture whose lines are drawn by human beings who wish to make sure that they are capable to live and just stick it out.
		The surrealistic picture at Surda checkpoint is changing every day in a way that even the surrealists have not managed to achieve before: One moment it looks like a white sea, than it is penetrated by different colors, and with every step the picture changes.
	www.rapprochement.org /ism-news/november/10112002.htm (681 words)

	If_you_live_over_there
		And with the return of the Surda checkpoint between my apartment in the town of Birzeit and Ramallah, I began to realize the extent to which freedom of movement is a privilege to Palestinians and not a right.
		Surda returned, with bigger piles of dirt, more blocks, and more soldiers after last Wednesdays suicide bombing, with an added barrier in the middle of the kilometer work so that horse carts cannot take people the length of the checkpoint.
		Now that Surda has returned there is only one way to drive in and out of Birzeit, which is of course controlled by a checkpoint, called Atara (between Birzeit and the village of Atara).
	home.birzeit.edu /pas/alumni/if_you_live_over_there.htm (1661 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Palestinians skeptical about Mideast peace plan as long as Israeli ...
		SURDA CHECKPOINT, West Bank – In pain after chemotherapy, Hassan Hamai gripped the armrests of a wheelchair as medics pushed him over an earthen rampart at an Israeli military checkpoint, one of dozens of barriers crisscrossing the West Bank.
		The roadblocks, most set up after the outbreak of fighting nearly three years ago to keep bombers and gunmen out of Israel, have disrupted every aspect of daily life and are one of the main points of friction in the conflict.
		Among the most difficult to cross is the Surda barrier, which blocks a main road connecting about 40 villages with the town of Ramallah, the West Bank's financial and administrative center.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20030624-1321-israelicheckpoints.html (912 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Surda copper mine is closed for the last four years and the management took an initiative to reopen the mines through the employees’ cooperative.
		Once the mine is operational, it will cater to 20 per cent of the overall copper concentrate needs of the company’s smelter in Ghatshila which is being reopened on June 15, he said.
		Apart from Surda, HCL had three mines in Ghatshila on lease which had already been returned to the state government.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040602/asp/business/story_3321210.asp (437 words)

	Spotlight on Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Godheld Province of Surda is a massive, devout nation, renowned for its compulsory military service.
		Surda's national animal is the Kraboeblaka, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Kraun.
		Surda is ranked 20th in the region and 69,210th in the world for Fastest-Growing Economies.
	www.nationstates.net /cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=display_nation/nation=surda (222 words)

	MIFTAH--One Road Under the Vast Blue Sky
		The name Surda is actually the name of a village that is located near Ramallah, and the roadblock was named after it because it’s the closest to it.
		The roadblock is situated at the Ramallah end of the road, less than one kilometer beyond the borders of the town on the main artery to 33 villages.
		She was very happy and felt a glimpse of freedom at that moment when she thought she can pass the road and enjoy the sun.
	www.miftah.org /Display.cfm?DocId=2790&CategoryId=19 (1540 words)

	Ambulance stopped at Surda checkpoint, Palestine Medical Relief staff detained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the morning of Thursday the 31st of July, the Israeli occupying army stopped a Palestine Medical Relief ambulance at gunpoint, at the Surda checkpoint in Ramallah.
		The Surda checkpoint, which lies on the only main road between Ramallah and Birzeit, was removed by the Israeli occupying army on Sunday the 27th of July.
		Obviously anticipating some criticism from the US President, the Israelis removed Surda, as an attempt to demonstrate their commitment to the "Roadmap".
	www.upmrc.org /content/publications/press_popup043.html (312 words)

	GN Online: Checkpoint's removal brings joy
		Palestinian traffic flowed freely through the Surda checkpoint north of the city of Ramallah for the first time since the army erected the roadblock a few months after the Palestinian uprising for independence began in September 2000.
		The Surda checkpoint was one of many erected across the West Bank by Israel.
		Palestinian officials estimate that 90,000 people cross the Surda checkpoint each day on their way to or from Ramallah, the Palestinians' main commercial and political hub just north of occupied Jerusalem.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=93717 (307 words)

	birzeit2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Carmela Armanious-Omary, the Vice President for Administrative and Financial Affairs at Birzeit University, expressed her deepest concern and outrage at the illegal Israeli policy of closure of the Ramallah-Birzeit road, which prohibits 5,000 students and 600 staff members from reaching Birzeit University.
		She emphasized that the occupation soldiers have violated all forms of human rights at this roadblock by arbitrarily shooting tear gas, sound bombs, rubber-coated steel bullets, and live ammunition at students and citizens of neighboring villages.
		However, major conjestion on the Surda checkpoint (erected on the Ramallah- Birzeit road) and travel restrictions greatly affects students and staff access to the Univesrity.
	www.al-bushra.org /hedchrch/birzeit2.html (1842 words)

	Got Milk? We Do Not (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We marchers from Birzeit met the marchers from Ramallah at the crossroads.
		The conglomerate of people first gathered on the Surda side of the destroyed road and began to fill in the trench and level the earthen banks.
		At last we saw, as we stood high on the hill at the entrance to Surda, Israeli bulldozers arrive in a convoy of jeeps.
	www.hcef.org /hcef/includes/news/print.cfm/ID/201.cfm (673 words)

	The Israeli Military roadblock at Surda - a roadblock to Peace : News & Events : Birzeit University : Palestine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Israeli military checkpoint at Surda and numerous others like it are a violation of international humanitarian law, including provisions against collective punishment and guarantees for the protection of civilian populations under military occupation, students' right to education, academic freedom, and the fundamental rights of human beings to live in dignity and freedom.
		The Roadblock can only be seen as an arbitrary act of collective punishment against tens of thousands of innocent civilians, including children, elderly and disabled whose access to schools, work, humanitarian and health services and food and other goods is once again being greatly disrupted if not totally curtailed.
		It is essential that the University be allowed to resume its normal operations immediately so that it can continue to contribute to progress and prosperity which are necessary underpinnings to development, hope and a just and lasting peace.
	www.birzeit.edu /news/news-d?news_id=5147 (401 words)

	Birzeit University Israeli Violations 2
		The Roadblock and Checkpoint situated on the Ramallah Birzeit Road at the Surda junction since March 2001 continued to hinder movement and access to Birzeit University up until it was removed on December 3, 2003.
		Also, temporary checkpoints were erected on the road between the Surda blockade and Birzeit University disabling students and staff from Surda, Abu Kash and other villages from reaching the University.
		On November 12, 2003 an Israeli army vehicle hit a University student while she was attempting to cross the checkpoint at Surda on her way to the University.
	www.monabaker.com /birzeit02.htm (1914 words)

	surda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When you are standing on the edge of the hill overlooking Surda checkpoint, you can see a miracle – something which is unlike anything else, an epitome of the ways of the occupation, the way in which people are treated in their every day life.
		There are no ingenious new ways of humiliation invented every day, and they don't even stress their minds to invent more extreme and sadistic means.
		The behavior of those controlling the checkpoint, the soldiers and those who give their orders is not just passive – receiving orders but very active too.
	www.jfjfp.org /surda.htm (707 words)

	Right To Education: Birzeit-Surda Roadblock
		It is the only Palestinian institution of higher education that lies outside of "Area A" (the main urban centers under full Palestinian Authority control within the terms of the Oslo Accords).
		As such, while students at all Palestinian universities face the daunting challenge of getting from their place of residence to their university due to the ever-expanding network of sieges and closures imposed by the Israeli occupation forces, between 2001-2003 Birzeit students, faculty and staff were faced with a critical extra challenge.
		This section chronicles the impact of Surda Roadblock on Birzeit University, detailing the closures and other incidents designed to bring a halt to the educational activities of the university.
	right2edu.birzeit.edu /news/catindex20 (396 words)

	B'Tselem - Photo Archive
		Palestinians crossing the Surda Checkpoint on foot and by wagon.
		Palestinians crossing the Surda checkpoint, between Ramallah and the v...
		Cars parked by the Surda Checkpoint, which can only be crossed on foot...
	www.btselem.org /English/Photo_Archive/List.asp?x_Concatenate=05&z_Concatenate=LIKE,'%,%' (195 words)

	POICA-Israeli Military Order Seizes 10-dunums of land from Al-Bireh town ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the mean time, Palestinians were prevented to use the road and thus directed by force to go through the Israeli checkpoints of Surda and Beit El.
		However, the harsh measures and the long delay that people face at Israeli checkpoints, forced ordinary Palestinians to use alternative roads which are - most of the time- inconvenient, muddy and not safe to travel through.
		Besides the road which is 1067 meters long, a suspected buffer zone of about 75 meters on both sides of the road will further lead to more confiscation of agricultural land.
	www.poica.org /editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=234 (500 words)

	Palestine Report - Back to square one (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On August 20, Israeli occupation forces reinstalled the checkpoint near the Surda village after temporarily removing it at the beginning of the month.
		Israeli forces had reopened the Surda checkpoint just 20 days earlier after a closure that had lasted since the start of the Intifada.
		For example, they point out, while Israeli bulldozers were removing the Surda checkpoint, Israeli forces were installing an iron gate on the dirt road at the entrance to Atara, thus barring vehicles from leaving that area.
	www.palestinereport.org /article.php?article=57 (472 words)

	Greenwich Time - Palestinians disappointed by premier
		All roads linking Jerusalem to the West Bank were closed yesterday after a warning that a suicide bomber was trying to sneak into the city -- one of what security officials say has been a "tidal wave" of threats since the summit.
		Soldiers at Surda extended the length of road from which cars are banned, forcing people to walk about one mile to approach the checkpoint from either direction.
		For the past 32 months, she has had to change cabs at the checkpoint, walking more than a mile between each one after waiting in line.
	www.greenwichtime.com /bal-te.mideast08jun08,0,906997.story (1059 words)

	מחסום WATCH
		And Surda is indeed open, the checkpoints have gone and [public taxi] vans ply the two km switch-back road from Ramallah towards Bir Zeit University.
		Travelling via Surda to the same place involves a taxi to Ramallah, another to Surda, and a third to their ultimate destination.
		RH embarked on a series of phone calls to the IDF humanitarian centre: "We'll get back to you!" is not the answer one wants to hear again and again standing in the cold wind with two pale, miserable, shivering young women, one of whom is pregnant.
	www.machsomwatch.org /docs/monthlyReports/reportsLinks/December/Dec23Qalandiya.asp (807 words)

	Palestinian National Authority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Birzeit is a Palestinian village, which lies 13 km north of Ramallah City and has the biggest university in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
		The Surda military checkpoint, which lies two km south of Beirzeit University, prohibits a large number of students from reaching their university in Birzeit.
		On 17 September the Birzeit Student Council organized a demonstration in front of the Surda military checkpoint, seeking a termination for the closure and restriction of movement imposed on Palestinians.
	www.pna.gov.ps /subject_details2.asp?DocId=485 (632 words)

	מחסום WATCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, the fact that she had already tried on more than one occasion to go through exasperated the woman officer and she was yet again told to go (the very much longer way) via Surda or el Arik (which means she will not have to set foot on Israeli soil!).
		Itamar, another of the soldiers we have come to know over the past five or six weeks, assured us that Surda was indeed open, which jibed with what we have heard from others.
		It was a shocking and shaming sight, but -- as far as we could see -- no blows were dealt out and once the handcuffs were in place the man went off quietly and on his own two feet into the metal guard box.
	www.machsomwatch.org /docs/monthlyReports/reportsLinks/December/Dec9Qalandiya.asp (486 words)

	Innovation (January/February 98) - Technology Opportunity Showcase
		The system, which has an industrial application, is being developed to provide an accurate method of evaluating the physical dimensions of surface flaws, defects and damage on critical surfaces of the Space Shuttle and related ground support equipment.
		SURDA will provide an alternative to the mold impression optical comparator or optical micrometry processes currently being used.
		SURDA uses the structured light microscopy technique as its basis and offers the benefits of real-time analysis and a permanent record of defect images, and it eliminates many labor-intensive functions required by other methods.
	ipp.nasa.gov /innovation/Innovation61/showcase.htm (770 words)

	Bir Zeit Report
		For the first time in over five months, Birzeit University staff, faculty and students are able to travel between Ramallah and Birzeit without being stopped, humiliated, or harassed by Israeli soldiers manning the checkpoint that was erected along the road last May.
		Less than 48 hours after evacuating the Surda checkpoint on the Ramallah-Birzeit Road, the Israeli occupation forces re-instated the checkpoint.
		Again, the Israeli occupation forces dig up the road at the Surda checkpoint on the Ramallah-Birzeit Road, creating a trench across the road half a meter deep and a meter wide, and making vehicular traffic completely impossible.
	www.seruv.org.il /testimonies/birzeit.htm (1290 words)

	Journal in the Land of the Holy One (July '03)
		We arrived at the Surda checkpoint, which was here in an on-again off-again fashion during our time here two years ago.
		We waited to arrive to Surda to see if there were any shared taxis waiting on the other side, but all we could see was darkness.
		She was happy to wander among the carts, absorbing the hubbub, eying the deep luscious color of young eggplants and breathing in the scent of fresh peaches, and picking up a kilo of fresh okra.
	www.saltfilms.net /zababdeh/jul03.html (10339 words)

	pal blog's FotoPage - Pal Blog - Because a photo is worth a thousand words - Fotopages.com
		IDF rebuilding the barricades at the Surda checkpoint.
		Still no photos, but it took me 30 mins to cross Surda in a car today, as the IDF have now started putting ad hoc checkpoints made up of a jeep and soldiers across the road, who create one way flows of traffic, check ID and generally harrass the population.
		It took some people an hour to cross, and at one stage they moved the checkpoint a little further up the road so some people got stopped twice on the same road.
	palblog.fotopages.com /?&page=7 (483 words)

	Restrictions at Birzeit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Today, Thursday October 9, 2003, the Ramallah Birzeit checkpoint at Surda remains hermetically sealed, preventing any travel or access to the University.
		In the two days preceding the total closure of the Ramallah-Birzeit checkpoint at Surda, the Israeli soldiers have been setting up temporary and random roadblocks on various points along the Ramallah Birzeit road, prohibiting individuals from passing for several hours at a time.
		The soldiers are stopping students and asking them questions about their academic situation and personal information including their telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.
	www.jfjfp.org /campaignfiles/birzeit.htm (503 words)

	Palestine Chronicle
		The road through Surda, with its one garage and small supermarket—the Country Food Stores—was built to allow access to the 40 small villages that lie scattered throughout the outlying mountains.
		The IDF retaliated and dumped mounds of earth across the road, which was in turn removed by the community.
		Private Palestinian cars with their distinct blue plates that are not allowed to leave Surda are parked in long lines on either side of the road’s descent.
	www.palestinechronicle.com /article.php?story=20020104164321413&mode=print (3795 words)

	Surda's new look - pal blog's FotoPage - Fotopages.com
		We don't know what is happening at Surda checkpoint, in the morning there was military vehicle which was not a hummer or a jeep but bigger than the usual (if you can identify it from zooming the photos please let me know).
		This afternoon as I returned, the army had blocked the road up to the top of the hill so we had even further to walk than when it was long before, and then a bloody great tank appeared with soldier sticking out the top of the turret.
		So, I thought I'd give you some of today's pics as a reminder of the daily routine under Occupation.
	shw.fotopages.com /15741.html (202 words)

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