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An Israel Border Police checkpoint at Jericho's southern entrance, 2005 Map of West Bank checkpoints in 2020. An Israeli checkpoint (Hebrew: מחסום, romanized: makhsóm; Arabic: حاجز, romanized: ḥājiz) is a barrier erected by the Israeli Security Forces, primarily today part of the system of West Bank closures in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry stated Israeli checkpoints had turned the West Bank into a prison where Israeli forces and settlers could do whatever they want. [564] In a joint statement in April 2024, Al-Haq , the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights , and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights stated, "Violent Israeli military and settler ...
The permit system is complex and applied differently from region to region. A permit eases travel and reduces the risk of being turned back at a checkpoint. Permits are necessary for crossing specific checkpoints, accessing the Jordan Valley, the 'closed area' between the Green Line and the Israeli West Bank Barrier and for entering East Jerusalem.
NEAR BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) -Three suspected Palestinian assailants opened fire at a checkpoint on a road between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday, wounding six ...
Israeli security forces stormed into a town near Tubas, northeast of the Palestinian city of Na. The Israeli military on Friday raided a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, besieging an ...
A Palestinian driver was shot dead at an Israeli army checkpoint near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, after what Israel's military said was a confrontation between ...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -A Palestinian militant opened fire at an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, wounding a security guard before he was shot dead by forces at the ...
On the morning of February 22, 2024, three Palestinian gunmen opened fire at the az-Za'ayyem checkpoint in the Olive Interchange on Highway 1, killing an Israeli citizen and injuring eleven others. Two of the gunmen were killed during the attack, and the third was killed in a chase afterward. [1]