The major NGO for information on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, Btselem, notes that the blocking of access surveyed in its new report is not to be viewed in isolation, but as part of a body of prohibitions, restrictions, oppressive means, and theft of land imposed on Palestinians who are under the Israeli military occupation in the West Bank (for the English summary of the Btselem report). The instances of blocking of access to land and the expropriation thereof by settlers through the use of violence has been a reality that the army has refused to…