20 8. Transport and Communications Sector The cessation of security coordination with the Israeli side had negative repercussions, as it caused the cessation of the work of all the joint committees between the Palestinian and Israeli sides related to road maintenance, traffic solutions to congestion and reducing traffic accidents. The occupation authorities’ control over most of the Palestinian land made it difficult to plan effectively to establish effective road networks with the shortest distances between Palestinian cities. The wall of annexation and expansion caused bottlenecks in some Palestinian villages and cut off communication between them, which hindered the Ministry’s ability to plan in them due to the inability to conduct field surveys there. The closures affected transport lines and increased travel distances. Preventing Palestinian vehicles from entering some roads, such as the external road linking the south of the West Bank with its center and north, contributed to the traffic congestion there. Such acts caused the distortions in the planning of the roads. Studies conducted by the Ministry of Transport and Communications on “the impact of Israeli measures on the transportation sector” showed that Palestinians lose approximately (60) million hours annually due to Israeli restrictions, at a cost of more than (270) million dollars for those wasted hours. Fuel consumption exceeds (80) million additional liters annually at a cost of more than (135) million US dollars, in addition to an increase in carbon dioxide emissions at an annual rate of more than (196) thousand tons. 9. Labor sector The occupation authorities continued their failure to implement occupational health and safety requirements for Palestinian workers in the work environment within the Green Line, as the number of workers’ deaths reached (23), while the number of work injuries reached more than (500). The percentage of decrease in the number of organized workers inside the Green Line during the Corona pandemic reached 15%), at a time when Israeli employers laid off workers and expelled them from their workplaces without compensating them for the period of having to stop work in the first three months of the pandemic (March/ March-May). During the pandemic, it was documented that the occupation forces threw Palestinian workers infected with the Corona virus on the side of the road and at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank, without admitting them to Israeli hospitals or providing them with appropriate treatment. On the other hand, a group of Palestinian workers working in the service and cleaning sector, in the laundries were forced to clean the clothes of those infected with the Corona virus. The Status of Human Rights in Palestine