Fafo-report 365

Jon Pedersen, Mona Christophersen, Lena C. Endresen, Pål Sletten

Paying a Price

Coping with Closure in Two Palestinian Villages

ISBN 82-7422-348-9
2001 64 s kr 164,- Ordrenr: 365 Bestilling

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“Closure” is Israeli restrictions on Palestinian movement of persons or goods across the border between the West Bank or Gaza Strip and Israel, and also internally within the Occupied Territories.

The Al Aqsa intifada – the new Palestinian uprising that started on the 28th September 2000 – made Israel impose strict closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

”Paying a price” depicts the daily life in two Palestinian villages on the West Bank as they experience the effects of the closure and the conflicts of the new Intifada. The study is based on short field works made by researchers from Fafo Institute of Applied International Studies in April 2001.

Measures, Currency and Abbreviations
Summary
Acknowledgements

1 Introduction
Closure, Space and Community
The Two Villages: Rantis and Beit Furik
Methods

2 The Closure of Rantis and Beit Furik
Movement Restrictions
Obtaining Services during Closure
Damage to Property
Development Postponed
Summary: the Closures are Tight, but not Total

3 Coping with Closure
Living with the Checkpoint
Going to Work or Not: the Breadwinners and the Closure
Making Ends Meet – Handling the Income Shortfall
Enterprises: Business Slowing Down

4 Six Months Later
Increasingly Difficult to Go to Work
The shops and businesses: adapting to a contracted market
Living with the Income Shortfall: a System on the Brink of Breaking Up
Public Services
Six Months Later: More Difficulties

5 The Consequences of Closure
The Households
Service Provision to the Population
The Future: If the Closure Goes On…
If the Closure is Lifted