Occupation - West Bank

Since September 2000 the Israeli Defence Force have restricted the ability of Palestinians to travel, work, and go to school to a degree unprecedented in the 40 year Israeli occupation of the West Bank. The internal closure separates Palestinian localities from each other and results in the hampering or complete freezing of the economic, political, educational, medical, and social service necessary for a healthy society. Such a 'cantonization' of the Palestinian Territories is achieved through the use of roadblocks (including destroying the roads themselves), checkpoints and military patrols, all built upon the skeleton of the Jewish settlements.

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