West Bank Access Restrictions Map | November 2024
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Interactive map - checkpoints & barriers
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Occupied Palestinian territory
Millions of Palestinians struggle to live with dignity under Israeli occupation, facing coercive practices and Palestinian political divisions.
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| Israeli CHECKPOINTS & barriers restricting Palestinian movement 2023 OCHA MAP |
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Who are the settlers? As many as 700,000 Israeli settlers are living illegally in the occupied West Bank as settler violence surges.
Settlers are Israeli citizens who live on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The vast majority of the settlements have been built either entirely or partially on private Palestinian land.
A settlement is authorised by the Israeli government while an outpost is built without government authorisation. Outposts can range from a small shanty of a few people to a community of up to 400 people.
Some of the settlers move to the occupied territories for religious reasons while others are drawn by a relatively lower cost of living and financial incentives offered by the government. Ultraorthodox Jews form one-third of all settlers.
A plurality of Israeli Jews who live in the West Bank say that the construction of settlements improves the security of the country, according to the Pew Research Center. The argument is that settlements act as a buffer for Israel’s national security as they restrict the movement of Palestinians and undermine the viability of a Palestinian state. However, some on the Israeli left argue that the settlement expansion hurts the two-state solution and thereby Israel’s own prospects for peace.
When were the first settlements built?
Israel started building settlements just after capturing the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the June 1967 Six-Day War.
In September 1967, the Etzion Bloc in Hebron was the first settlement built in the occupied West Bank. The settlement now hosts 40,000 people.
Kfar Etzion, one of the oldest settlements, houses around 1,000 people while the largest – Modi’in Illit – has around 82,000 settlers, most of them ultraorthodox Jews.
Successive Israeli governments have pursued this policy leading to a rise in settler population in the occupied territories.
About 40 percent of the occupied West Bank land is now controlled by
settlements. These settlements — along with a vast network of
checkpoints for Palestinians — effectively separate the Palestinian
parts of the West Bank from each other, making the prospect of a future
contiguous state almost impossible, according to critics.... READ MORE
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