Ahead of tomorrow's presidential election, Palestinians have complained Israel was not carrying out the promised easing of its military grip on the West Bank and Gaza.
International election monitors have been deployed to oversee the ballot.
However, Israeli soldiers have kept up their daily routines of inspecting identity cards and packages of Palestinians waiting in line at checkpoints at the entrances to West Bank cities.
Hanna Nasir, chairman of the Palestinian Central Election Commission, said appeals were going out to the international monitors to ensure Israel eased its military restrictions.
In promising to help Palestinians hold their first presidential election since 1996, Israel said it would keep troops out of West Bank but the checkpoints would remain.
Mahmoud Abbas, an advocate of non-violence in the struggle for statehood, is widely expected to win the election to replace Yasser Arafat by a landslide.
