At all times it was still possible to find a side road to travel on. If people were unable to use their own vehicles, they could rent a car in east Jerusalem. If the road to the Ben-Gurion airport was closed, the King Hussein bridge was traversable. If the airport was closed there were the ground borders with Egypt. This week all roads have been closed.
People are, for the first time, using animals to transport goods.
Companies are driving trucks to unloading points and carrying cargo over newly established dirt mounds in order to reload them on other trucks from the Palestinian side. The latest closure has caused many to repeat the statement that the Palestinian territories have become a huge prison.