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PCHR Weekly Report: 11 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, wo... Jul 02 09 PCHR Weekly Report: 5 Palestinian civilians, 1 international wounded b... Jun 26 09 Palestinian detainee enters his 32nd year in detention Jun 25 09 Latest News ArticlesIsraeli sub crosses the Egyptian Suez Peninsula. 11:01 Sat 04 Jul Bahraini officials arrive in Israel to take five Bahraini nationals back home 10:24 Sat 04 Jul Israel cuts off water to Arab Druze towns on hottest day of year 01:49 Sat 04 Jul Israel pledges to compensate UN for shelling its facilities in Gaza 23:53 Fri 03 Jul Three children diagnosed with swine-flu 23:31 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers attack the Nil'in weekly Protest 17:26 Fri 03 Jul Three Injured during the weekly Bil'in protest 16:13 Fri 03 Jul Israeli Housing Minister Concerned over increasing Arab population 11:32 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers wound a Palestinian woman at a roadblock in the Jordan valley 08:04 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers break into the Al Aqsa Mosque yard, kidnap three Palestinians 05:37 Fri 03 Jul Full StoryUN report: “Israel has increased the number of roadblocks in the West Bank” Friday September 21, 2007 23:25 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies
 The United Nations issued a report revealing that Israel has increased the number of roadblocks in the occupied West Bank, despite previous promises to reduce the number of illegal structures. The UN stated in its report that despite promises made by the Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, to the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, to remove 24 roadblocks and consider easing restrictions imposed on the movement of the Palestinians in the West Bank, the number of roadblocks has increased. Barak’s promise followed a similar promise by Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, during talks with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. The UN report revealed that the number of roadblocks reached 572, which is a 52% increase compared to 376 roadblocks in August 2005, Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that Israel setup 40 new roadblocks in the past two months. Also, the report added that the Israeli army did not remove a fence installed along road number 317 in the Southern Mount area in Hebron, Haaretz added. OCHA said that additional 48 roadblocks are currently preventing access to various roads in that area. The report also revealed that there are 476 roadblocks in the occupied West Bank, consisting of concrete blocks, earthen embankments and other barricades blocking roads leading to villages and towns, Haaretz added. Haaretz also stated that since April this year, the Israeli army has refused to provide data regarding the number of roadblocks in the West Bank, and that the army installed additional roadblocks to “protect the settlers”, and not to “prevent attacks against Israel”. Haaretz added that the UN figures on roadblocks did not include roadblocks installed along the Green Line separating Israel from the Palestinian territories. |
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