The video from inside the checkpoints shows lush rolling hills scarred by craters that descend for hundreds of feet into pits.
Inside the checkpoints, Namie is a ghost town of empty streets cluttered with garbage and weeds, unheard-of in famously neat Japan.
Later, however, the agency said that the passengers could have gotten off and reboarded if they stayed in the area inside the checkpoints, and that it had the ability to recall screeners in the middle of the night if necessary.
The scene inside the checkpoints shocked me almost as much as the separation policy did the first time I was in Hebron.
Other clips, apparently recorded inside a building at the checkpoint, showed the fighters destroying a photograph of President Bashar al-Assad and smashing portraits of the autocrat and his late father, Hafez.
They have to bribe the soldiers on the checkpoint to let food get inside.
He worked for an Israeli bus company, driving Palestinian laborers from the checkpoint in Gaza to their jobs inside Israel and back.
Gunfire could be heard inside its limits, which end just down the road from the checkpoint, and departing civilians said armed bearded men were roaming the bazaar.
Traffic slowed near the checkpoint.
The commander steered wide of the checkpoint.
