‘Women in Blue-and-White’ Recorded Complaints Against Machsom Watch
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A grassroots organization called Women in Blue-and-White in Haifa visited IDF soldiers at a checkpoint located outside Tul Karem in Samaria, in order to record complaints by the soldiers against members of the Machsom Watch organization. According to the soldiers, members of the all-women left-wing radical Machsom Watch organization interfere with the security functions at the checkpoint (called a machsom in Hebrew) and degrade the soldiers in front of the Palestinian Authority residents who pass through the area. The Machsom Watch activists also threaten the soldiers with formal complaints if they refuse to do as the activists demand.
The Women in Blue-and-White brought them cakes and drinks and wished them a happy holiday ahead of the Shavuot holiday on Friday. In contrast, he said, a few minutes beforehand, a group of women from Machsom Watch arrived and insulted the soldiers.