just 7.8 percent187 of the Bethlehem governorate classified as Area A, i.e. two disconnected urban areas of Bethlehem,188 and some small isolated village enclaves in the surrounding areas classified as Area B (5.5 percent), Israel has retained full control over 87 percent of the governorate and all transportation thoroughfares between Bethlehem, its villages and other major Palestinian cities. These classifications of the land have allowed Israel the guise of legitimacy and the opportunity to utilize the transportation networks to enact some of its most stringent policies which isolate Bethlehem into an enclave of inequality, congestion and oppression. Map of Bethlehem Governorate after Oslo (ARIJ)189 With Bethlehem severed entirely from Jerusalem, Israel has applied its isolationist policies to the remainder of Palestinian cities and villages, with hopes of isolating them from one another, and obstructing any continuity that remains between them. In the case of Bethlehem, this is done by isolating Bethlehem from Ramallah and other Palestinian cities in the north and from Hebron in the south. In doing this, Israel is able to easily control the movement of both people and goods coming in and out of Bethlehem, 187 In Bethlehem, 5.5 percent is classified as Area B and 7.8 percent is classified as Area A. 188 ARIJ, supra 162, 10. 189 Ibid. 55