georgephillip
Diamond Member
Do you have any links?The West Bank isn't autonomous. There are over 500 checkpoints and roadblocks in that area managed by the IDF restricting the movements of all Palestinian's who live there. That's not autonomy.In the mean time, the PA has self government in the autonomous West Bank areas A and B and is only prevented from having it in Gaza by Hamas.
Palestinian's have died because Israeli's wouldn't allow them passage through a checkpoint to get to the hospital. Autonomy my ass!
None of this is true. There is only one checkpoint now within the West Bank although there are several between the West Bank and Israel. As a response to the second intifada there had been as many as 600, but as the number of attempted terrorist attacks decreased so did the number of checkpoints. There were never any checkpoints within the autonomous regions of Areas A and B.
"In September 2011, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said there were 522 roadblocks and checkpoints obstructing Palestinian movement in the West Bank, up from 503 in July 2010. That number does not include the temporary checkpoints known as 'flying checkpoints,' of which there were 495 on average per month in the West Bank in 2011, up from 351 on average per month in the previous two years."
Israeli checkpoint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia