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title: "Movement between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip"
description: "This memo reviews the background to the current separation between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and the various procedures imposed on Palestinian families that are split between the two or between the Gaza Strip and Israel (including East Jerusalem). Israel's current policy of separation results in thousands of families being stripped of their basic right to family life and freedom of movement in their homeland."
url: "https://www.nrc.no/resources/legal-opinions/movement-between-the-west-bank-and-the-gaza-strip"
language: "en"
published: "2016-12-15T09:43:00Z"
modified: "2017-04-20T08:53:00Z"
---

Legal memo

# Movement between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

Published 15. Dec 2016

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This memo reviews the background to the current separation between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and the various procedures imposed on Palestinian families that are split between the two or between the Gaza Strip and Israel (including East Jerusalem). Israel's current policy of separation results in thousands of families being stripped of their basic right to family life and freedom of movement in their homeland.

- [Download legal memo](https://www.nrc.no/globalassets/pdf/legal-opinions/legal_memo_movement_between_wb_gaza.pdf)