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Fact Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n Interactive Map<\/a><\/p>\n Restrictions on movement deepen humanitarian needs among Palestinians, undermining access to livelihoods and essential services such as health care and education, and have a noticeable psycho-social impact on communities.<\/p>\n An updated mapping exercise by the United Nations reveals that 645 movement obstacles are spread across the West Bank. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has\u00a0documented<\/a>\u00a0an 8 per cent rise in the number of obstacles since its previous survey.<\/p>\n Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\u2019s count includes 49 constantly staffed checkpoints; 139 intermittently staffed checkpoints; 304 roadblocks, earth-mounds and road gates; 73 earth walls, road barriers and trenches; and 80 additional obstacles of various types within the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron (H2).<\/p>\n OCHA has also published an\u00a0interactive map<\/a>\u00a0featuring images and specific data for every documented obstacle.<\/p>\n Out of all the obstacles verified, 339 prevent or restrict access to main roads, city hubs, services, and farmland, with a severe impact on Palestinians. A 712 km Barrier, now 65 per cent built, runs mostly inside the West Bank, and poses a major movement obstacle for people.<\/p>\n Under international law, the Israeli authorities have the obligation to facilitate the free movement of Palestinians within the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, with only certain security-related exceptions recognized. Sections of the Barrier within the West Bank are unlawful, as concluded by the International Court of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fact Sheet Interactive Map Restrictions on movement deepen humanitarian needs among Palestinians, undermining access to livelihoods and essential services such as health care and education, and have a noticeable psycho-social impact on communities. An updated mapping exercise by the United Nations reveals that 645 movement obstacles are spread across the West Bank. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2449,2601,1329],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,1945,5358,2533,5200,2349,2309,2097,6251],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-288899","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-factsheet","document-category-map","document-category-press-release","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-ClosuresCurfewsBlockades","document-subject-health","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-living-conditions","document-subject-protection","document-subject-social-issues","document-subject-west-bank","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/288899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/288899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289014,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/288899\/revisions\/289014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=288899"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=288899"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=288899"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=288899"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=288899"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=288899"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=288899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}