Roadblock removal in Beit Ummar
Two concrete roadblocks blocking access to the Palestinian villages of Zif and Beit Ummar were removed as Israeli activists joined Palestinians in an act of resistance to the Israeli policy of restriction of movement and Jewish-only apartheid roads.

The day started at the village of Al-Jab’a, where a dirt mound and a few concrete slabs block the road between the Palestinian villages of Surif and al-Jab’a. The purpose of this roadblock is to restrict the movement of Palestinians from Surif and Beit Ummar to the north, and limit travel possibilities to one: going through the Beit Umar junction, where there is a military pillbox and a constant military presence.
As soldiers were present near the roadblock and it seemed impossible to remove it, activists headed towards a second roadblock in Zif, where a line of concrete blocks of one cubic meter (35 cubic feet) blocked a road, and where local community members were waiting.

Roadblock removal in Zif
Using ropes, the blocks were quickly rolled away before the army noticed anything, and the traveling roadblock dismantlers went on to Beit Ummar to try and remove a roadblock already removed once on October 6.
Using the same method of attaching two ropes and pulling, two of the four concrete blocks were moved away from the road, allowing cars to drive on it.
Soldiers arrived just as the second block was removed.
To try and prevent the commotion caused the last time the roadblock was removed, the crowd dispersed.
Open road in Beit Ummar

UPDATE: as of 28/10/06, a week after, both roadblocks remain open.

Israel's closure and siege policy have effectively divided the Occupied Territories into six separate, isolated islands. This policy is executed by strategically using the wall, main checkpoints, settlements, apartheid Jewish-only roads, the prohibition on Palestinian movement in the Jordan valley, and a regime of permits for internal movement to limit and monitor Palestinian movement.
Roadblocks and smaller checkpoints are used to further frustrate and control Palestinian civilian movement within these six ghettos.