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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) fact sheet containing updated 2026 figures on obstacles restricting movement of Palestinians across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Obstacles include checkpoints, road gates, roadblocks, and linear closures designed to block or temporarily hinder Palestinian access to main roads and other towns and villages. A significant number of these checkpoints and obstacles are concentrated in the city of Hebron. The factsheet also includes information about Israeli permit systems in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, international law violations, and settlement expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This source is valuable for research on apartheid in the West Bank, Israeli permit systems and administrative restrictions, and settlement expansion.
