How Israeli restrictions on Palestinians’ movement break up the West Bank
While barriers to free movement make the lives of Palestinians extremely difficult, they do not make Israel more secure.
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Every Palestinian born in the West Bank before the start of the occupation in 1967 has witnessed the extent to which Israel has transformed the landscape through spatial planning, military closures, and settlement, infrastructure and road construction.
Sixty years on, what used to be a straightforward journey from point A to point B within the West Bank has become an arduous and frequently hazardous undertaking.
As a foreigner living in the West Bank in the 1980s and visiting it off and on ever since, this transformation revealed itself in incremental leaps and bounds, on each occasion provoking a shock of recognition mixed with consternation at how things looked the same but different.
I remember driving from Jerusalem to Ramallah in the 1980s, for example.
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