Checkpoints

Checkpoints, set up on Israel’s border with Palestine and within the West Bank, include both more permanent structures and temporary ones. They are a notorious point of tension between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians. Israel argues that the checkpoints are needed to protect the country from Palestinian terrorists. But the checkpoints also make it difficult for the Palestinians to travel or live normal lives and are often the site of abuse.

Legal Documents & Reports

• The Bureaucracy of Occupation – report by Machsom Watch and Physicians for Human Rights

Maps

• Closure Maps – from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• West Bank Checkpoints – from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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