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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.
Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz has stated the operation is a "full-fledged war" focused on stamping out "terrorist infrastructures", accusing Iran of trying to establish an "eastern terrorist front" against Israel in the West Bank by funding and arming the militias. [19] Some militants from the West Bank have also launched attacks inside ...
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 ...
Israel's hardline nationalist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Monday for security zones to be set up around Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, keeping Palestinian farmers ...
Four protesters, including a minor, were arrested at the protest, at Tarqumiya checkpoint, west of Hebron in the Israeli occupied West Bank, according to a statement from lawyers representing the ...
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 December 1986 Birzeit University protests were a series of protests led by students at Birzeit University in the West Bank in December 1986.. Beginning as a sit-down protest against an Israeli roadblock that significantly impacted campus life, the protest soon spread across Palestine after the Israeli military shot and killed two of the protestors.