A child looks at a checkpoint soldier on the Jerusalem to Ramallah road c.1994 // Israel has occupied the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights since the Six-Day War of 1967. Since the 1990s, Israel has created hundreds of permanent roadblocks and checkpoints staffed by Israeli Military or border police. Between 2000 and 2006 at least 68 women gave birth at checkpoints of whom 35 miscarried and five died in childbirth.