Middle East Strategy at Harvard

From MESH Admin

Two recent maps are useful guides to aspects of the present situation in the West Bank. To view each map in full, click on the thumbnail (a pdf file will open).

The first map, prepared by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is entitled “West Bank: Access and Closure, December 2007.” This very detailed map shows checkpoints coded according to type as well as other physical barriers (e.g., earthen mounds, trenches, etc.) There is a table breaking down the location of these by governate. On the right side of the map are photographs illustrating the different kinds of barriers. The map also shows Palestinian-inhabited areas, Israeli settlements, military areas, roads, the Green Line and separation barrier route, and Areas A, B, C, and H2 as designated in the Oslo Agreement. Data is current as of November 2007.

The second map, prepared by the Foundation for Middle East Peace, is entitled “Settlements Established and Evacuated 1967-2008.” It maps Israeli settlements coded according to the decade in which they were established, settlement outposts established before and after March 2001, and settlements evacuated in September 2005 (this map includes Gaza). The larger settlements are named.