UN Says Israel's 942 Checkpoints, Barriers in Occupied West Bank Restrict Palestinian Movement
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Updated figures from Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, UN humanitarian office show extensive network of checkpoints, gates, roadblocks
The Authority for the Resistance of the Wall and Settlement has declared that the 942 military roadblocks, gates and trenches set up by the Israeli occupation at the entrances to cities and towns and on the roads connected between them in the West Bank have transformed Palestinian geographic contact into a network of controlled tracks, effectively dividing the West Bank into "cantons" and enclaves that can be connected, separated and closed at a…
The West Bank ' s military roadblocks and gates are no longer just checkpoints that block the movement of Palestinians on the roads, but, according to the Authority for the Resistance of the Wall and Settlement, they have become a vast system of reorganization of movement and access, stretching between the entrances of towns, towns and villages and on the roads between them, and reshaping Palestinian geography in such a way as to make movem…
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank live in a suffocating web of control and geographic fragmentation, as the number of Israeli military checkpoints, gates and roadblocks has now reached a historic high of 942. Read here ⇛
Updates to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority revealed that the system of barriers, gates and military obstacles to the occupation in the West Bank has expanded to 942 in a development that the Authority has said is reshaping the graffiti.
According to a report by the Palestinian Committee for Resistance Against Walls and Settlements, the number of Israeli checkpoints and barriers in the West Bank has reached 942, the highest level in the last 20 years. These barriers disrupt connectivity by controlling Palestinians' access to work, school, hospitals, and agriculture.
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