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About the different areas of control in the West Bank and their problems

 

We focus our attention especially on Area C and the area B enclaves, where triple friction arises between the Palestinians, the Israeli army, and the settlers. We visit checkpoints and Palestinian villages in the central West Bank, the shepherd communities of the Palestinian Jordan Valley, barriers and villages in the South Hebron Hills, and in divided cities such as Hebron and greater Jerusalem.

The turbulence of conquest, annexation, and exclusion
Jerusalem: the forbidden city

Jerusalem: the forbidden city

Palestinian Sacred and Heritage Sites

Palestinian Sacred and Heritage Sites

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Accords and Reality

The Taba Agreement of 1995 stipulated that the West Bank would be divided into three areas of control: A, B, and C. Their size and civil and security status were defined as a merely temporary phase, but they were fixed as the political negotiations ground
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The lives of most Palestinians in Areas B and C depend on Israel and the settlements

There are about 240,000 Palestinians ("Bimkom"'s estimate, 2020) living in Area C, and it is controlled by the State of Israel through the army and its Civil Administration. The Palestinian inhabitants of this area are subject to prohibitions and restrict
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The control areas A, B, C and the
Seam Zone behind the separation fence

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Restrictions of construction and development 

onstruction permits are issued to Palestinians in Area C by the Israeli Civil Administration. Only about 1% of their applications are met affirmatively! Any application for a permit to build a private house or expand it, to put up a storehouse, a pergola,
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Limitation of work and livelihood

Without construction permits, no industrial and civil development, strict movement restrictions, and after having lost or been practically disconnected from the farmlands that served as their source of livelihood in the past – what is left for Palestinian
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Demolished water reservoir, Jordan Valley , 26.8.2019
Photo: 
Daphna Banai
An internal checkpoint in Azun, area C/B, 17/4/2019
Photo: 
Rachel Afek
Life restrictions for the palestinians in areas A & B
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Deprivation of water

Water shortage  is a severe and destructive issue, experienced solely by the Palestinian residents of the West Bank. It is a direct result of the State of Israel’s intended policy: deny Palestinians of the Occupied Territories their water. Mekorot, Israel
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Landgrab

The settlers and (‘legal’ and illegal) outposts have been built contrary to international law upon lands occupied by Israel in 1967. The main means to take over land was to declare it as ‘state land’. Other indirect means have been, and still are: confisc
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Relations between Palestinians and Israeli settlers

 Over the years of occupation - the more settlements and outposts were built around Palestinian communities, the new neighbors’ harassment of Palestinians has become more severe. Such harassment means closing off access, wounding people, cutting down oliv
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