Barry Andrews MEP: In the occupied West Bank, I witnessed apartheid

Imagine living in Ballinasloe and needing to drive to Galway city. It would be just an hour’s drive west down the M6 motorway, with traffic maybe your only concern.

But what if you had to pass several concrete and steel military checkpoints, manned by 19-year-old soldiers, armed with M4 machine guns and surrounded with surveillance cameras. Passing each checkpoint means not knowing what uncertain, humiliating or life-threatening encounter awaits.

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