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Article: Israel establishes new permit system for travel between West Bank towns

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Dateline: BETHLEHEM, West Bank Israel is enforcing new restrictions in the West Bank requiring Palestinians to obtain permits to move from town to town, and is putting up fences and digging trenches to block those trying to sneak past soldiers.

Palestinians fear Israel is making permanent what was to have been a temporary emergency measure _ military blockades of West Bank towns aimed at preventing Palestinian terror attacks. Hundreds of Israelis have been killed in bombings and shootings since Israeli-Palestinian fighting erupted 20 months ago.

Israel denies Palestinian claims that it is carving up the West Bank into disconnected cantons in order to impose ...

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