Posted on 10/13/2023 5:49:50 PM PDT by FarCenter
Israel maintains a hefty security presence in the occupied West Bank with a network of permanent and temporary checkpoints set up by the army and paramilitary border police.
Military authorities do not reveal the number of checkpoints or their locations, and new, ad hoc posts often pop up overnight with no advance notice.
Those checkpoints and the personnel needed to man them are reminders of how Israel’s military is spread out to maintain its occupation. There are also warning signs of the challenge Israel might face in supporting a likely increase in demand for these barriers from Israeli settlers while also needing its troops for an expected invasion of the Gaza Strip.
International agencies try to keep track of the checkpoints, which are a major obstacle to normal and dignified life in the Palestinian territory.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) counted 645 obstacles before the latest violence. Human Rights Watch counted 1,500 temporary checkpoints that came and went in 2019 and 2020.
The human rights group also warned that, even in a period of relative calm: “Israeli forces routinely turn away or delay and humiliate Palestinians at checkpoints without explanation, while permitting largely unfettered movement to Israeli settlers.”
Most of the checkpoints are along the separation barrier – a wall that in places rises three storeys high, topped with razor wire and dotted with observation towers and all sorts of surveillance and security equipment.
It snakes through Palestinian lands for more than 700km (435 miles), preventing access to Israel from the occupied West Bank.
Unlikely. They can see what’s happening in Gaza.
Made me laugh, right there. Fences make good neighbors. A neighbor is responsible for making their own life "normal" and "dignified". If they don't play nice with me, well... f' them.
What occupation?
Israel’s Gaza INVASION????
Sounds interesting. Maybe they should rise up and see what happens.
How silly. How can Israel invade its own country?
It is not occupied. It is just how s hole people want it. They voted for it.
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