Separated Entities: Israel Divides Palestinian Population of West Bank and Gaza Strip

B’Tselem, Hamoked – Center for the Defense of the Individual - September 23, 2008 - Back to Resources Page [1]

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Israel is taking unilateral measures to institutionalize and perpetuate a new factual and
legal reality of separation between residents of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank,
while severing the interdependent social, economic and cultural ties between the two
groups, infringing their rights and impeding the possibility that the Palestinian people
will realize their right to self determination.

Since the beginning of the current intifada, Israel has taken various measures designed
to separate the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, to split the Palestinian population into
two separate entities and to cut those off from each other. This policy escalated in the
past year with a new requirement imposed on Palestinians whose registered address is
in the Gaza Strip, to hold a permit in order to be present in the West Bank, and with
the removal of such persons from the West Bank and defining them "illegal aliens".
The new permit regime is an unprecedented, legally baseless move, by which Israel is
turning Palestinian residents of the OPT into "illegal aliens" in their own homes.

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B’Tselem, Hamoked – Center for the Defense of the Individual - September 23, 2008 - Back to Resources Page [1]