Critics say the policy aims to restrict and track the travel of foreign nationals and control the Palestinian population.

Palestinian PM welcomes move by UN agency as an important step to ‘protect our Palestinian identity, heritage and narrative’.

Wasteful construction, a double road system, trips lengthened by checkpoints and asphalt at the expense of open spaces: Israel’s policy in the West Bank and Gaza has a green price tag

The continuous settler takeover of Palestinian land has prevented Palestinians from developing and utilizing their resources and therefore significantly depleted their economy.

Six detainees’ dramatic escape from a maximum-security Israeli prison has sparked demonstrations across the occupied territories and shifted Palestinians’ sense of what is possible.

Ongoing developments in the region demonstrate once again the failures of “economic peace” and the need for such a politics of solidarity that a critical political economy approach takes.

Foreign Affairs Asks the Experts

An approach to economics that does not consider the political—a de-politicized economics—is inadequate to understanding the situation in occupied Palestine.