The vast majority of Palestinians continued to endure restrictions on their movements. Farmers faced difficulties every day as they tried to reach their land isolated behind the West Bank Barrier and around Israeli settlements, while Palestinians separated from the rest of the West Bank by the Barrier found it particularly hard to obtain essential services, such as medical treatment. This is an update on the humanitarian situation and ICRC activities in the occupied West Bank during 2009.

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Source: ICRC