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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 ...
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.
Israeli soldiers, police officers and rescue teams inspect the scene following a shooting on January 6, 2025, in the Palestinian village of Al-Funduq, in the occupied West Bank.
Pages in category "Israeli checkpoints" ... Qalandia checkpoint This page was last edited on 18 January 2024, at 12:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Israeli checkpoint on the way from Ramallah to Jerusalem is often clogged with traffic. - Ivana Kottasova/CNN ... Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza in the 1967 war. It ...
To be at work by 9 a.m., Joseph Handal gets up at 4:30 a.m., even though his workplace, a Franciscan church in the Old City of Jerusalem, is only a few miles from his home in Bethlehem.
In 2004, only 0.14% of West Bankers (3,412 out of 2.3 million) [36] had valid permits to travel through West Bank checkpoints, while throughout the whole of 2004 only 2.45% of West Bank inhabitants held any kind of permit at all. [36]
Increased separation. Israel has occupied the West Bank since seizing the territory from Jordanian military occupation in 1967. It later agreed to transfer limited control over parts of the ...