An area of land in the West Bank that the Israeli military declares off-limits to anyone but the Israeli military and those allowed to remain in the area or with permits issued by the Israeli authorities. These zones often encompass or are located near the Separation Barrier, Jewish Israeli settlements and/or Israeli military outposts. The Israeli military can also declare an area to be a closed military zone for a short period of time, which often happens in areas/cities where Palestinian protests are taking place, at Israeli military checkpoints and in areas where altercations have happened between Jewish Israeli settlers and Palestinians. See “Access Denied: Israeli measure to deny Palestinians access to land around settlements.” B’Tselem. September 2008 http://www.btselem.org/download/200809_access_denied_eng.pdf. For examples of temporary closed military zones, see Weiss, Efrat. “Hebron declared a closed military zone.” Ynet News. 17 January 2006 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3201313,00.html; and Hass, Amira. “IDF declares West Bank protest villages a ‘closed military zone’.” Haaretz. 15 March 2010. http://www.haaretz.com/news/idf-declares-west-bank-protest-villages-a-cl....  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/closed-military-zone