Tell us your work

Who is working in Palestine today, at what, and for how much.

Moving

Crossings, gates, checkpoints and closed land: the state of each place that decides whether people reach their work.

Moving · 8 places · reports of 10 Sep–14 Oct

The board

WHERE

Closed or barredOpen, limited or slowOpen

Each place keeps its last reported state and the date of that report. No report, no mark: a place drops off the board when nobody has reported on it for a month.

What the closures cost

Counts from the West Bank, each with who counted.

925

checkpoints and military gates in the West Bank, 147 of them in Nablus governorate

Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, via Al Jazeera, 10 Sep

191,146

working hours lost to checkpoint delays every day, about ₪2.8m

MAS study, via Al Jazeera, 10 Sep

+20%

transport costs since checkpoint and gate closures

Federation of Chambers of Commerce, via Palestinian Information Center, 13 Oct

737

olive plots where coordination is required or Israelis are barred, 70 more than last year

Israeli Civil Administration, via The Times of Israel, 8 Oct

Photograph

People queue in a narrow roofed corridor between perforated metal panels inside the Qalandia checkpoint terminal.
Inside the Qalandia checkpoint terminal on its opening day, February 2019 (archive). Photo: Wikimedia Commons, see credits below.