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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 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.
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A blanket Israeli military closure has left movement between West Bank towns and cities almost at a standstill. Entry into East Jerusalem from most checkpoints is disallowed, even for those with ...
Israel has excluded thousands of Palestinians from its population registry, limiting their ability to reside in or travel from the West Bank and Gaza. Between 1967 and 2017 over 130,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and 14,565 in East Jerusalem had their residency permits revoked by Israeli authorities. [67]
The West Bank, which many in Israel call Judea and Samaria after the old Biblical terms for the area, is a kidney shaped region about 100 km (60 miles) long and 50 km (30 miles) wide that has been ...
Gradually, however, Israel's permit policy became more and more strict. Under the permanent closure policy, residents of Gaza required a personal exit permit to travel within Israel or the West Bank. [14] In March 1993, Israel imposed an overall closure on the Gaza Strip with newly built checkpoints.
On 28 August 2024, Israel launched a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank. [36] [37] [38]It was Israel's largest military operation in the West Bank in more than 20 years since its Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, [39] and marked a significant escalation of the continual Israeli incursions into the region against Palestinian militants during the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.