Draft talk:Palestinian Freedom of Movement


 * Haaretz illegal checkpoints - "Israeli rights group B'Tselem said Tuesday most of the dozens of manned checkpoints and hundreds more physical roadblocks set up in the West Bank are "illegal" and constitute collective punishment."
 * Haaretz illegal checkpoints -"But since then, their purpose has also become to facilitate the safe passage of settlers on roads restricted to Palestinians, B'Tselem said, calling this an "ulterior interest" that made many of the roadblocks illegal under international law."
 * Haaretz illegal checkpoints -"On a total of some 312 kilometres of main roads in the West Bank, cars with Palestinian license plates are forbidden or restricted, the organization said. "
 * Haaretz illegal checkpoints -"The Justice Ministry said in a reaction that the roadblocks were erected to protect Israeli citizens and that they were put in place after a 'long range of' of suicide and shooting attacks by Palestinian militants since the beginning of the Intifada in September 2000. The roadblocks have in the past years prevented hundreds of attacks 'aimed at Israel's civilian population,' said the ministry. "


 * Britannica - "The extensive documentation compiled by both local and intemational human rights and humanitarian organizations over the six years of the al-Aqsa intifada depicts a general picture of the restrictive impact of checkpoints on Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)."
 * Britannica - "Checkpoints impede the travel of Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to East Jerusalem, from Gaza to the West Bank and vice versa, and from the West Bank and Gaza to the outside world. They make it extremely difficult for Palestinians even to move from one city to another and from one village to another within the same area or region. "
 * Britannica -  "They make it extremely difficult for Palestinians even to move from one city to another and from one village to another within the same area or region."


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 * Haaretz re Humiliation -


 * BBC babies


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 * Office for the Coordinatio of Humanitarian affairs May 2009 report - "Approximately 28% of the West Bank is designated as either closed military zones or as nature reserves." -