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One day at Huwwara checkpoint, women, young boys, and old men were allowed through, but all Palestinian men aged 15-40 weren't--period. It didn’t matter where he was coming from; it didn’t matter where he was going; it didn’t matter who he was. If he was Palestinian, male, between 15 and 40 years of age, then he couldn’t get home, or to school, or to the hospital, or wherever he was going. So hundreds of young Palestinian men gathered here in this ditch below the checkpoint in hopes that the rule would change at some point. Then...