The West Bank closure system is a series of obstacles including permanent and partially staffed checkpoints, concrete roadblocks and barriers, metal gates, earth mounds, tunnels, trenches, and an elaborate set of permit restrictions that controls and restricts Palestinian freedom of movement.[1]
Severe closures began following the outbreak of the First intifada in the late 1980s, when travel restrictions were tightened in the West Bank and Gaza, and Israel began requiring Gazan workers to hold permits workers from Gaza.[2]
- ^ "West bank: Closure Count and Analysis - Occupied Palestinian Territory" (PDF). Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
- ^ Julie Peteet (15 January 2017). Space and Mobility in Palestine. Indiana University Press. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-0-253-02511-1.. Also at [1]