Human Rights and Palestine -- ID cards

Click here for a report from B'T Selem, an Israeli human rights group, on the refusal of Israel to issue ID cards to Palestinians, a necessary prerequisite for movement anywhere in the West Bank.

What does this refusal mean? It is evidence that Israel is violating human rights by preventing Palestinians from free movement, a trangression against article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also points to the ingenuousness of Israel's stance that they have created their maze of checkpoints and roadblocks for security; but rather, Israel's refusal to even allow Palestinians to move about to access food and medical care begs the question of why--really--Israel has 500+ checkpoints in the occupied West Bank... Perhaps not for security, but for some less noble purpose... Hrmmm....