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Hitchhiking in the '''West Bank''' (Palestinian territories) is not a great ideagame of chance. Some people, bad things can happen and people are likely especially Jewish settlers, tend to carry guns. Especially not at dark. Anyway itIt's still quite popular amongst young settlers due to especially among the lack of public transportation even if their was palestinian attacks related to settler's youth, although there were cases they were targeted by militants which hitchhiking. On 2005 some palestinian opened fire on jewish settlers witch where  Among the Palestinians, hitchhiking outside of a settlment [http://editionis not common at all - yet that does not mean it's difficult to get rides.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/16/westbank.shooting/index.html]. There have also been the case of a false palestinian hitchhiker dressed as a religious jewish witch blowed himself in a car where he For short distances especially, you are likely to encounter their hospitality and get a liftride quite quickly. Due to the importance of this way of transportationNotice that while they will wait in Israeli checkpoints, the IDF took some mesures you will most likely have to secure it[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/895373wait with them.html]  

The border crossing procedure can be time consuming. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ended up on Israeli territory in the West Bank when it was already dark. You're not allowed to walk away from the border crossing (which is also a military base) so you are left to the taxi leeches. They try to charge 30 shekels for a very short ride. There is also a shared taxi service to Jerusalem for the same price.