(had to shorten the longer headline) 65 manned roadblocks, 58 trenches, 95 concrete barriers, 464 mounds of earth
By Akiva Eldar | Haaretz Measures aimed at "easing restriction on movement of persons and goods" are mentioned in the first stage of the road map, a stage that was originally slated to end by May 2003. But the road map is one thing, and the roadblock map is another.
On August 4, at the height of the hudna (cease-fire), Labor Party Secretary-General MK Ophir Pines-Paz asked Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz how many roadblocks and other obstacles are scattered throughout the West Bank, how many the Israel Defense Forces had removed since the start of the hudna and how many they intended to remove?
In a question to the minister, Pines-Paz noted that roadblocks make life very difficult for West Bank residents, and that despite Israel's promise to make thing easier for them as one of its gestures under the road map, it was not clear that there had been any significant change on the ground.
The answer arrived about four weeks later, from the office of Deputy Defense Minister Ze'ev Boim. "The roadblocks are changed from time to time in accordance with the situation assessment," Boim wrote, explaining that therefore, "there is no possibility of keeping track and informing
of how many roadblocks have been taken down since the hudna and how many are slated to come down."
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