Restrictions Land Confiscation on Use and Access Introduction 2. Those who live within the West Bank but own agricultural land within the Seam Zone, or have a 'linkage' to the land. 3. Those who have businesses located within the Seam Zone. 63 Applications for a permit can take weeks to process whilst Palestinians who fail to meet the criteria above are not legally entitled to access Seam Zone land for any reason. Even in the event of an individual meeting one or more of the above criteria, there is no guarantee of success.219 Shareef Khaled - Jayyus, Qalqilya220 I am a 70 year old farmer, I have lived with my family in Jayyus since 1967. Before that I used to live in Jordan and I moved back to help my father in cultivating our land. Jayyus is located in the Qalqilya district and has around 3,200 inhabitants. Its economy is based on agriculture. The built-up area of the village is in Area B, but most of its agricultural land is in Area C. I own six plots of lands covering an area of 175 dunums, where I plant different kinds of vegetables and fruits. After the building of the Annexation Wall in 2002, I started to face different obstacles in accessing my land and I have been required to apply for a permit from the Israeli authorities to enter through the gate in the Wall because it’s not allowed for anyone to enter without a permit. In addition, the Zufin military camp is situated near one of my land parcels and the colony of Zufin next to another parcel. Lately, Israeli colonists have placed caravans 500 meters from my land. In September 2003, the Israeli authorities handed the local council a limited and random number of permits to cross the gate of the Wall which also included names of babies and dead people! The people who didn’t receive permits, including me, used to enter our lands through an opening in the fence, but we couldn't bring our tractors or horses. After a while it became impossible to pass like that any longer. From 2004 to 2007, the administration of the Occupation sometimes renewed the permission and sometimes they did not. In the latter cases I had to contact my attorney or human rights organizations that help with such problems. Usually, after contacting them I used to get a permit within a week or two. However, each time I was participating in conferences abroad speaking about the effects of the Wall on our livelihood I used to get banned when I came back home. In 2007, after my participation in a conference in the UK, I was denied entry to my land for seven months and 18 days. It was the worst period of my 219 PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, Barrier to Peace: The Impact of Israel’s Wall Five Years After The ICJ Ruling (July 2009); available from http://www.nad-plo.org/userfiles/file/fact%20sheet/FINAL %2520Anniversary%2520of%2520ICJ%2520ruling%2520on%2520the%2520Wall%2520FINAL%2 5209June09.pdf; accessed 23 April 2013. 220 Shareef Omar Khaled (Abu Azzam), ‘Jayyous, Qalqilya’, interview by BADIL, March 2013.