[WCUSP] Amira Hass_Impossible Travel
yvonne simmons
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Sun Jan 21 14:56:46 CST 2007
> Subject: Fw: Amira Hass_Impossible Travel
> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:43:06 -0800
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: May Seikaly
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> Thanks to Amira Hass and the staff of OCHA and the
> volunteers of Mahsom Watch for this disturbing, but
> concise and useful summary of the facts on the
> ground.
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> Regards,
> Henry Lowi
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=815559
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> Hebrew:
> http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/815307.html
> [a loose translation of the Hebrew title: 'A Routine
> of Ordinances and Restrictions Empty West Bank Roads
> of Vehicles']
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> Last update - 17:27 19/01/2007
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> Impossible travel
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> By Amira Hass
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> All the promises to relax restrictions
> in the West Bank have obscured the true picture. A
> few roadblocks have been removed, but the following
> prohibitions have remained in place. (This
> information was gathered by Haaretz, the United
> Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
> Affairs and Machsom Watch)
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> Standing prohibitions
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> * Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are
> forbidden to stay in the West Bank.
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> * Palestinians are forbidden to enter
> East Jerusalem.
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> * West Bank Palestinians are forbidden
> to enter the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing.
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> * Palestinians are forbidden to enter
> the Jordan Valley.
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> * Palestinians are forbidden to enter
> villages, lands, towns and neighborhoods along the
> "seam line" between the separation fence and the
> Green Line (some 10 percent of the West Bank).
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> * Palestinians who are not residents
> of the villages Beit Furik and Beit Dajan in the
> Nablus area, and Ramadin, south of Hebron, are
> forbidden entry.
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> * Palestinians are forbidden to enter
> the settlements' area (even if their lands are
> inside the settlements' built area).
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> * Palestinians are forbidden to enter
> Nablus in a vehicle.
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> * Palestinian residents of Jerusalem
> are forbidden to enter area A (Palestinian towns in
> the West Bank).
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> * Gaza Strip residents are forbidden
> to enter the West Bank via the Allenby crossing.
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> * Palestinians are forbidden to travel
> abroad via Ben-Gurion Airport.
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> * Children under age 16 are forbidden
> to leave Nabus without an original birth certificate
> and parental escort.
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> * Palestinians with permits to enter
> Israel are forbidden to enter through the crossings
> used by Israelis and tourists.
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> * Gaza residents are forbidden to
> establish residency in the West Bank.
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> * West Bank residents are forbidden to
> establish residency in the Jordan valley, seam line
> communities or the villages of Beit Furik and Beit
> Dajan.
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> * Palestinians are forbidden to
> transfer merchandise and cargo through internalWest
> Bank checkpoints.
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> Periodic prohibitions
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> * Residents of certain parts of the
> West Bank are forbidden to travel to the rest of the
> West Bank.
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> * People of a certain age group -
> mainly men from the age of 16 to 30, 35 or 40 - are
> forbidden to leave the areas where they reside
> (usually Nablus and other cities in the northern
> West Bank).
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> * Private cars may not pass the
> Swahara-Abu Dis checkpoint (which separates the
> northern and southern West Bank). This was canceled
> for the first time two weeks ago under the easing of
> restrictions.
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> Travel permits required
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> * A magnetic card (intended for
> entrance to Israel, but eases the passage through
> checkpoints within the West Bank).
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> * A work permit for Israel (the
> employer must come to the civil administration
> offices and apply for one).
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> * A permit for medical treatment in
> Israel and Palestinian hospitals in East Jerusalem
> (The applicant must produce an invitation from the
> hospital, his complete medical background and proof
> that the treatment he is seeking cannot be provided
> in the occupied territories).
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> * A travel permit to pass through
> Jordan valley checkpoints.
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> * A merchant's permit to transfer
> goods.
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> * A permit to farm along the seam line
> requires a form from the land registry office, a
> title deed, and proof of first-degree relations to
> the registered property owner.
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> * Entry permit for the seam line (for
> relatives, medical teams, construction workers, etc.
> Those with permits must enter and leave via the same
> crossing even if it is far away or closing early).
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> * Permits to pass from Gaza, through
> Israel to the West Bank.
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> * A birth certificate for children
> under 16.
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> * A long-standing resident identity
> card for those who live in seam-line enclaves.
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> Checkpoints and barriers
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> * There were 75 manned checkpoints in
> the West Bank as of January 9, 2007.
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> * There are on average 150 mobile
> checkpoints a week (as of September 2006).
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> * There are 446 obstacles placed
> between roads and villages, including concrete
> cubes, earth ramparts, 88 iron gates and 74
> kilometers of fences along main roads.
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> * There are 83 iron gates along the
> separation fence, dividing lands from their owners.
> Only 25 of the gates open occasionally.
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> * Road 90 (the Jordan Valley
> thoroughfare)
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> * Road 60, in the North (from the
> Shavei Shomron military base, west ofNablus and
> northward).
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> * Road 585 along the settlements
> Hermesh and Dotan.
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> * Road 557 west from the Taibeh-Tul
> Karm junction (the Green Line) to Anabta (excluding
> the residents of Shufa), and east from south of
> Nablus(the Hawara checkpoint) to the settlement Elon
> Moreh.
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> * Road 505, from Zatara (Nablus
> junction) to Ma'ale Efraim.
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> * Road 5, from the Barkan junction to
> the Green Line.
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> * Road 446, from Dir Balut junction to
> Road 5 (by the settlements Alei Zahav and Peduel).
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> * Roads 445 and 463 around the
> settlement Talmon, Dolev and Nahliel.
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> * Road 443, from Maccabim-Reut to
> Givat Ze'ev.
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> * Streets in the Old City of Hebron.
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> * Road 60, from the settlement of
> Otniel southward.
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> * Road 317, around the south Hebron
> Hills settlements.
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> Travel time before 2000 versus today
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> Tul Karm-Nablus
> Then: half an hour, at the most.
> Now: At least an hour.
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> Tul Karm-Ramallah
> Then: less than one hour.
> Now: Two hours.
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> Beit Ur al-Fawqa-Ramallah
> Then: 10 minutes.
> Now: 45 minutes.
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> Katana/Beit Anan-Ramallah
> Then: 15 minutes.
> Now: One hour to 90 minutes.
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> Bir Naballah-Jerusalem
> Then: seven minutes.
> Now: One hour.
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> Katana-Jerusalem
> Then: five minutes.
> Now: "Nobody goes to Jerusalem
> anymore."
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