5- Public Works and Housing Sector: The Ministry of Public Works and Housing faced many obstacles and challenges that prevented the Ministry of Public Works from exercising its functions and providing its services to the fullest, including:18 - Obstruction and control by the occupation and its control of administrative powers in Area “C” has obstructed the Ministry of Public Works from exercising its mandate duties in most areas of the West Bank, in terms of road construction, implementing housing programs, developing and maintaining infrastructure and constructing public facilities for Palestinians living there. - Tens of thousands of Palestinians continue suffering the Israeli occupation’s denial and violation to their right to housing, because of the occupation authorities’ exclusive authority to grant building and housing permits. - Preventing and disrupting the Ministry of Public Works and Housing from achieving its goals, by limiting the ministry’s ability to draft and organize structural plans related to road improvement and rehabilitation, construction of new roads and other infrastructure works, or housing projects to secure adequate housing for the Palestinian citizen in the territories. C ". - Causing traffic jams due to the lack of alternatives and the inadequate infrastructure for traffic size, especially in central West Bank. 6- The Security Sector and the Rule of Law: The Israeli violations constituted a flagrant threat to the Palestinian security apparatus, which impeded the performance of the Palestinian National Security Forces and contributed to weakening the Palestinian public confidence in them, which negatively affected the apparatus’s effective performance. During the year, the National Security Forces monitored and documented the daily Israeli violations. At least (1,129) violations were monitored, ranging from raids and arrests of civilians, detention and confiscation of property, road closures, establishment of military checkpoints to the arrest of National Security personnel, which impeded the work of the security forces. As for the Customs Police, it faced many challenges that impeded its work in protecting the economic and food rights of the Palestinian citizen, through complicating the procedures for obtaining the necessary coordination to operate in the areas classified "B" and "C", and the refusal to coordinate and impede work at least (247) times in various Palestinian areas. Added to the above, the Israeli occupation caused delays to the Customs Police work, despite A correspondence received by the ICHR from the Ministry of Public Works and Housing on January 22, 2020. .18