50 for the exchange of information. Israel set up around (460) military checkpoints in the West Bank, dividing it into regions (a) under Palestinian administrative and security control, and (b) under Palestinian administrative control but Israeli security control, and (c) under the occupation, where movement of the Palestinians in these areas requires prior coordination with Israel”.43 The PNA holds Israel and its policies responsible for impeding the work of Security Services in performing its functions and duties, with the aim of (1) strengthening allegations of the weakness of the PNA and its Security Services, and its inability to control security, (2) and interfering with imposing order and respect for the law. Israeli occupation will remain the primary threat for the process of reforming the Palestinian security sector. The PNA launched several regional campaigns to enforce its security plans, aiming at the eradication of crime and enforcing public order in the Palestinian cities and towns of the West Bank where the security agencies returned to enforce some control. Hence, stricter practical measures were applied to address the state of widespread lawlessness and vigilantism particularly throughout the last years. However, Israel continued to hamper these efforts with its counterproductive policies of incursions, assassination of Palestinian activists, arbitrary arrests, and closure of charitable societies and public institutions inside the Palestinian cities and towns. 9 ‐ Judaization of Jerusalem City During 2010, Israeli occupation forces stepped up their repressive procedures within the occupied city of Jerusalem, and accelerated the pace of Judaizing the city through house demolitions, land confiscation and deportation of Palestinians from the country. Israeli violations of freedom of worship continued. Israel continued to deprive the residents of the West Bank from reaching the Al‐Aqsa Mosque and the Church of Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem. Israeli practices and policies aim to undermine the Arab presence in Jerusalem, and convert its Arab population into a minority. An Israeli ministerial committee ratified a law considering the city of Jerusalem an area of national priority, and placing it within the area’s designated development zones (a) in the fields of housing, employment and education.44 43 http://www.alquds.com/node/306800 44 A report issued by the PLO National and International Relations Department, 2010.