As of February 2020, UN OCHA had counted 593 obstacles to movement in the West Bank, including fully or partially staffed checkpoints, road blocks of various kinds and gates. Salfit has lost more than 50% of its land – isolated behind the apartheid Wall. Join us at the ‘Decolonizing the Climate Crisis’ COP26 event! Over 200,000 Palestinians of East Jerusalem are totally isolated from the rest of the West Bank and facing continuous efforts by the Israeli occupation authorities to drive them out of their city. It has reminded the international community of its duty to take appropriate action to ensure to end this illegal situation.10 years after the ICJ Advisory Opinion was released, 92 top legal experts and 41 legal networks have released a joint analysis “Time for Concrete Action” on the legal implications of the Wall and the ICJ decision and have urged UN and third-state to take action. The wall is a constrictor that crushes Palestinian space, mind and body. The Wall’s architect, Dany Tirza, puts the cost at 2.56 million USD per km. Similarly in Bili’n, Israel had to push back the wall from its originally planned path, returning 1000 dunums to the village, and built part of the wall concrete instead of fencing. In 2005, 3 children were shot dead in Beit Liqya. This seeks to enlarge the number of Jewish settlers in the area and to change the city’s demography. The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians that began in the mid-20th century amidst the greater Arab–Israeli conflict. The Wall in Jerusalem is almost completed: only small parts in the north and east of the city are still under construction. The Wall’s construction started in 2002 to advance Israel’s annexation policies and to refine its apartheid regime over the Palestinian people. Moreover, when agricultural lands fall within the seam zone areas, farmers residing outside these areas can rarely access their lands. The main difference between Israel and Palestine is that Israel is a nation, and Palestine is a geographical region. A month after the ICJ decision, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) voted overwhelmingly to demand Israel to comply with the UN’s highest legal body. Map Of Israel Wall Art. The ghettoization or Bantustan project in all of its forms imprisons the Palestinian population and, in many places, isolates it from basic services. Before the kingdom of Israel … The West Bank Wall walls off Israel from the West Bank. A similar wave of killings occurred during 2008-2009, when Occupation forces killed 5 in Ni’lin and 1 in Bil’in, followed by the murder of another woman in Bil’in in 2011, all in response to ongoing resistance. These are peremptory norms that are binding on all States and from which no exceptions are permitted. Repression continues daily. Palestine has not been, nor is it currently, a nation. The cost of a life under apartheid, deprived of basic human rights and enclosed in ghettos or bantustans simply cannot be calculated. The right of Palestinians to live in Jerusalem is also under threat. Israeli wall isolates Palestinian communities Social life and traditions in Palestinian towns have been badly ruptured by Israel’s 450km separation barrier. According to Tirza, each kilometer costs annually 8% of its construction costs as maintenance costs. #JerusalemUprising: Palestinians triumph over Israeli violence and bigotry! Learn more. In February 2006, Israel announced a plan to annex 28.5% of the Valley, including 24 villages with a population of 58,000 along with their water resources and the Eastern aquifer. It has altered the faces of communities, become the dominant factor in the lives of many, has affected the economy of the two peoples and has insinuated itself very naturally into the cultural folklore of this conflicted land. The nation of Israel should be distinguished from the land region of Palestine. It is a prison that has been completely surrounded for years by walls and razor wire. Thursday marks the 16th anniversary since the International Court of Justice (ICJ), The vote called on UN member states “not to recognise the illegal situation resulting from the construction of the wall in the occupied Palestinian territory, including in and around, In Pictures: Palestinians mourn loved ones as Israel pounds Gaza, In Pictures: Israel attacks on Gaza kill 24, including children, In Pictures: Israeli forces storm Al-Aqsa compound, Photos: Jordan in the grip of ‘severe’ drought, Gaza tower block collapses after Israeli strike, Palestinians say 21 killed as Israeli air raids on Gaza continue, Melinda Gates met divorce lawyers when Epstein ties revealed: WSJ, Elon Musk asks Twitter followers if Tesla should accept Dogecoin, Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights. When the West Bank Wall was being built, there was a debate over whether it is a "fence" or a "wall." The first wave of killings and serious repression lasted for a year and began in 2004 with the killing of 5 people in Biddu, which had organized mass demonstrations against the construction of the Wall. In order to claim reparations from Israel for the losses incurred by Palestinians through Israel’s construction of the Wall, the United Nations has set up a Register of Damages (UNRoD). Map Of Wall Between Israel And Palestine. In other places, the Wall consists of layers of fencing and razor wire, military patrol roads, sand paths to trace footprints, ditches and surveillance cameras. The Wall literally cements the existence of segregated reserves and ghettos for Palestinians, one of the elements defining the crime of apartheid. Hence the Court ruled that Israel’s violation of these norms as well as  international humanitarian law, result in legal obligations for all States and the United Nations. It is a central component of the plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Jerusalem. By so doing, Israel blocks thousands of Palestinians from freely accessing and cultivating their lands, a pivotal source of livelihood. The ICJ confirmed the obligation of the international community not to aid or assist in the implementation of Israel’s construction of the Wall and its associated regime or the maintenance of it. During the trial of Abdallah Abu Rahmah in 2010, documents presented revealed that ammunition used against anti-Wall demonstrations from August 2008 – 2009 cost 6.5 million NIS (1.83 million USD), and the concrete wall erected in Ni’lin, a response to the continued cutting of the fence, cost 8.5 million NIS (2.39 million USD). Thousands live in villages and towns designated as ‘seam zones.’. With roughly 65% of the Wall constructed, this would mean over 1.2 billion USD spent just on construction. 25% of the most fertile agricultural lands in Gaza are not usable. These “gates” are part of an overall maze of movement restrictions for Palestinians that Israel ointinues to maintain in the occupied West Bank. A critique of West Bank development approaches and projects” (2008), we have shown how these plans have been further refined and transformed into the ‘Palestinian Reform and Development Plan’. During the “first phase,” 13 villages west of the Wall have been de facto annexed to Israel and some 50 villages are separated from their lands. Stop the Wall endorses a letter calling on the ICC to Save Sheikh Jarrah. Another minor participated in the same protest and succumbed to his wounds few days after Hamayel. The Wall literally cements the existence of segregated reserves and ghettos for Palestinians, one … Despite Israel's ongoing construction of the separation wall, several Palestinian villages have mounted fierce resistance. While Israel is heading for de jure annexation, the Wall is an important tool of Israel’s illegal and ongoing de facto annexation. The Wall has destroyed a large amount of Palestinian farmland and usurped water supplies, including the largest aquifer in the West Bank. Ancient Map Of Israel And Palestine. It is 8 meters high – twice the height of the Berlin Wall – with watchtowers and a “buffer zone” 30-100 meters wide for electric fences, trenches, cameras, sensors, and military patrols. Some of those violations may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity, and must be immediately investigated by Israel.”, Since the start of May, the Israeli occupation authorities have intensified its prolonged violent assault on Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Occupied Jerusalem. The boundaries of annexation proposed by Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ overlap largely with the Wall’s path, further underscoring that the Wall has already created the reality of annexation. Built in phases from 1994, the Israeli West Bank Wall stretches 440 miles (708 km), mostly along the 1949 Armistice "Green" Line. Whatever one’s opinion, there’s no disputing the fact that the wall’s presence has caused no few upheavals in the lives of both Israelis and Palestinians. In Al-Mughayyyer, Al-Mazra’a Al-gharbyya (Ramallah district), Aseera (Nablus district), Hares and Bidyya (Salfit district) demonstrations against settlements are ongoing, while in other areas successful popular mobilization and protests have stopped several settler outposts from being established. The separation wall that blockades the Gaza Strip consists of several physical barriers. North of Salfit, the Ariel settlement bloc cuts 22km into the West Bank, separating the Central Ghetto from the North. Thursday marks the 16th anniversary since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) deemed Israel’s separation wall illegal. Map Of Israel Palestine Wall. 150 Palestinian communities have land located between the Barrier and the Green Line… Most Palestinian farmers are now obliged to obtain permits to access their farming land between the Barrier and the Green Line, which has been declared a ‘closed area’. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague declared it illegal in a 2004 advisory opinion, while Israel’s own Supreme Court has said its path must be changed in a few specific locations. Israel’s Walls aim to enclose the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including almost 1.5 million refugees, on only 12% of their historic homeland. In addition to these ”gates,“  checkpoints or other obstacles, over the period from Abril 2019-March 2020, Israel has set up ad-hoc over 1500 ”flying” checkpoints on key routes for several hours at a time. The northwestern part of the Wall from Jenin to Qalqiliya (the “first phase” of 145 km) is complete while continuing south until Salfit. Popular resistance to the Wall, which consists of demonstrations and various means of direct action, began with the first demolitions in 2002 and has continued ever since. Palestinians are currently facing a moment in which Israel intends to expand its settlement project and the West Bank territory to be annexed beyond the Wall’s current path. Pope Francis Prays At Bethlehem, Wall Between Israel And 'State Of Palestine', Calls For Middle East Peace (PHOTO) Reuters BETHLEHEM, West Bank, May 25 (Reuters) - Pope Francis made a surprise stop on Sunday at the wall Palestinians abhor as a symbol of Israeli oppression, and later invited presidents from both sides of the divide to the Vatican to pray for peace. Route 4370, which winds for several kilometres (miles) northeast of Jerusalem, consists of two separate two-way roads divided by a wall topped with fencing. The UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Gaza protests come to the conclusion that it “has reasonable grounds to believe that during the Great March of Return, Israeli soldiers committed violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. Popular protests are increasing the costs of the Wall. The Wall creeps 22km into the West Bank with two fingers to annex the settlement blocs: Immanuel and Ariel. Israel’s repression has further escalated in response to these protests. The vote called on UN member states “not to recognise the illegal situation resulting from the construction of the wall in the occupied Palestinian territory, including in and around East Jerusalem“, and “not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by such construction”. In a follow up report “Development or Normalisation? With the land isolated by the Wall, annexed for settlements, and closed under various pretexts, only 13% of the Bethlehem district is available for Palestinian use. Old Map Of Palestine And Israel. This film describes the Middle East conflict between Palestinians and Israelis in the holy land Palestine. They have […], Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop the Wall’s Annexation map and explainer, #SaveSheikhJarrah: The Countdown is on for Sheikh Jarrah Ethnic Cleansing. This event which takes place on Friday, April 23rd at 18.00-19.30.00 [Palestine Time] is Part […], During last February, the Israeli occupation authorities demolished Humsa, a Bedouin community in Northern Jordan Valley, five times as part of the Israeli attempts to ethnically cleanse the community. The wall is a prison. The project is expected to cost approximately NIS 3 billion ($833 million), with each kilometer of the underground portion of the wall costing approximately NIS 41.5 million ($11.5 million). In the Gaza Strip, the repression of the struggle for freedom has been particularly cruel and deadly. The letter, which was sent to Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the ICC, calls on her to urgently include the looming ethnic cleansing of 28 Palestinian families […], The Jewish National Fund operates through colonialist strategies of greenwashing, land grab and suppression. More than a dozen villages located along the route of the Wall will collectively lose thousands of dunums of productive land. After 2005, restrictions on access for Palestinians to the Jordan Valley were lifted; yet, the checkpoints remain. The most important part of the Wall that has not been completed yet is the section around the illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem. On March 11, 2020, the Israeli military murdered Muhammed Hamyel, a youth from Beita during a protest to free Mount Al-Arma in the Nablus district. Construction of the barrier started in 1994, after the signing of the Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area. Amid this tremendous Israeli violence against the families of Sheikh Jarrah and their supporters from other areas in Jerusalem, Palestinians assert that the ethnic cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah is no longer […], Yesterday, Sunday, 26 April, thousands of Palestinians rejoiced at Damascus Gate, Occupied Jerusalem, following the Israeli soldiers backdown and removal of the iron barriers set in the area since the start of the holy month of Ramadan. Of these, only 11 opened daily, ten opened for some day(s) of the week and during the olive harvest season, and the majority, 53, only opened during the olive harvest season. In “Do-it-Yourself Apartheid”, the Stop the Wall Campaign has already in 2005 denounced the World Bank’s plans to facilitate and coordinate support for Israel’s apartheid project under the pretense of “development”, as well as the alarming eagerness of international governments and “aid” organizations to adopt, expand upon, and ultimately implement the Bank’s proposals. The Wall isolates thousands of dunums from Hebron district, threatening cattle rearing, which is a main of source livelihood in the area. Protestors are continually beaten and injured by projectiles at demonstrations. The Gaza Strip, with a population of some 2 million people in 365 km2 is one of the most densely populated places on the globe. The Wall’s path and its associated regime are planned to de facto annex some 46% of the West Bank, isolating communities into Bantustans, ghettos and “military zones.”, The International Court of Justice in its 2004 ruling on the illegality of Israel’s Wall in the occupied West Bank stated that “the Court considers the construction of the wall and its associated régime create a “fait accompli” on the ground that could become permanent, in which case, and notwithstanding the formal characterization of the wall by Israel, it would be tantamount to de facto annexation.“. Israel has created agricultural “gates” in the Wall; these do not provide any guarantee that farmers will have access to their lands but instead strengthen Israel’s strangling system of control, based on permits and checkpoints where Palestinians are beaten, detained, shot at and humiliated. Jerusalem (AFP) - A newly-opened highway into Jerusalem divides Israeli and Palestinian drivers into separate lanes with a wall, leading Palestinians to label it an "apartheid road". Some sections, particularly in urban areas, this barrier comprises of a concrete wall six to eight meters high, whilst in others there is an electronic fence flanked by paved pathways, barbed-wire fences, and trenches. Muhammad was defending the area from settler takeover. The film shows the impact of the Israeli decisions to separate the Palestinians land from Israelis land by building the iron wall. While the wall impedes daily life for many Palestinians, it is by no means an impermiable barrier; many Palestinians go to and from work in Israel on a daily basis, though the … The Apartheid Wall’s “buffer zone” paves the way for large-scale demolitions and the expulsion of nearby residents, as in many places the Wall is located just meters away from homes, shops, and schools. A wall runs through it: New road divides Israelis and Palestinians. Some 12% of Palestinians in the West Bank are living in the closed military zones of the Jordan Valley surrounded by Israeli illegal settlements and military camps. This barrier is variously known as the 'Separation Fence/Wall' (Israeli), the 'Apartheid Wall' (Arabic), or internationally most frequently simply as the 'Wall'. As of June 2019, the Board of UNRoD reviewed and decided on 35,370 of the collected claims for its inclusion in the Register.UNRoD has the mandate to collect and document damage or loss suffered as a result of the Wall. Whenever the Wall’s route deviates from the Green Line (the border between the West Bank and Israel), it is being built on occupied Palestinian land and is illegal according to international law. The above-ground wall costs NIS 1.5 million ($416,000) per kilometer. They have all appealed to #SaveHumsa, to recognize the attempts to destroy this and other Palestinian communities as policies of apartheid. Seam zones are areas where Palestinians are stuck between the Apartheid Wall and the Green Line. Palestinians climb a wall built by Israel during a protest in 2009. Credit: AP. From 2000-2005 only residents of the Jordan Valley whose identity cards indicate that they live in one of the villages in the valley were allowed to cross these checkpoints . It found that by constructing the Wall, Israel is in breach of the prohibition on the acquisition of territory by force and the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people. April 8, 2021 by Mandy Klug. #SaveHumsa: Water Apartheid intensifies to ethnically cleanse Humsa, UN under pressure to #SaveHumsa and end Israeli apartheid. 19 In order to access such land, which lies between the Green Line and the wall, in an area known as the “Seam Zone,” Palestinians have to apply for a special permit, mirroring the permit regime during the era of military rule which lasted until 1966. Repression by Israeli forces is severe. Other residents of the West Bank were allowed to cross only if they have a special permit issued by the Israeli occupation authorities. Various attempts have been made to resolve the conflict as part of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. Until today, only some 60-70% of the Wall’s 810km long path is completed. These bantustans mirror both the structure used by the South African apartheid regime to relegate the Black population into unsustainable, segregated areas, and the confinement of Indigenous peoples to isolated reservations by other settler colonial states, which also served as the model for the development of the bantustan system. The route creates small, isolated Palestinian ghettos. The apartheid Wall is complemented by a complicated, roughly 1,660 km long system of ‘apartheid roads’ in the West Bank that systematically destroy the Palestinian road network while imposing a different road network for Israelis that Palestinians from the West Bank are not allowed to access. It has been referred to as the world's "most intractable conflict," with the ongoing Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip reaching 54 years. Near the Qalandiya checkpoint, the main connection point between the northern West Bank and Jerusalem, is a long-standing (now partially defaced) mural of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat by artist Vince Seven. Learn more. Despite this repression, grassroots action against the Wall and settlements continues across the West Bank: In Kufr Qaddoum and Nil’in weekly demonstrations against the Wall continue. Since 2000, the Valley has been surrounded with 6 checkpoints controlling all access. The Wall encircles the Holy City and the ring of settler colonies around it, furthering Jerusalem’s isolation from the West Bank. Since March 30, 2018, the Palestinian people in Gaza started popular protests at the walls surrounding Gaza, called the Great March of Return. It also ruled Israel should pay reparations for any damage caused. However, UNRoD does not have a mandate to evaluate or assess the loss or damage claimed, and therefore falls short of the ICJ’s recommendation that reparation be made to victims of damages caused by the Wall. The Wall is built with concrete along some 20% of its length, including in Bethlehem, parts of Ramallah, Qalqilya, parts of Tulkarm and throughout the Jerusalem envelope. For more, see Stop the Wall’s Annexation map and explainer. The Jordan Valley constituting about 28.5% of the West Bank remains almost completely isolated from the rest of the West Bank, much of it being declared a closed military zone by Israeli occupation forces. From there it merges with the other portion of the Wall to form a ghetto in the north. New settlements are under construction around Jerusalem built on the annexed lands. The Israeli occupation forces killed dozens of activists in non-violent demonstration against the Wall and the settlements. He is a member and co founder in Palestinians for peace and Democracy organization. In 2019, the Israeli Defense Ministry has begun the final phase of construction of a 20-foot high galvanized steel fence that will completely surround the Gaza Strip. This settlement bloc annexes 2% of the West Bank. The Trump “Deal of the Century” aims to give Israel even more land, enclose Palestinians in even tighter bantustans and implement the full annexation of the Jordan Valley. Click here for more. Israeli public security minister Gilad Erdan, who attended the road's inauguration on Wednesday, called it "an example of the ability to create shared life between Israelis and Palestinians… In the southern West Bank, the Apartheid Wall encircles Bethlehem by continuing south of East Jerusalem in both the east and west. Israel’s Walls aim to enclose the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including almost 1.5 million refugees, on only 12% of their historic homeland. Graffiti on the wall that divides West bank and Jerusalem. 21 Posts Related to Map Of Israel Palestine Wall. In 2019, 74 gates and five checkpoints along the Wall were designated for agricultural access. A newly-opened highway into Jerusalem divides Israeli and Palestinian drivers into separate lanes with a wall, leading Palestinians to label it an "apartheid road". Thursday marks the 16th anniversary since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) deemed Israel’s separation wall illegal. After considering certain fears expressed to it that the route of the wall would prejudge the future frontier between Israel and Palestine, the Court observed that the construction of the wall and its associated régime created a “fait accompli” on the ground that could well become permanent, and hence tantamount to a de facto annexation. In Jayyous village (Qalqilya district) and Baqa Asharqiyya (Tulkarm district) Palestinian resistance has as well been able to force a re-routing of the wall, increasing the costs and efforts Israel had to spend on the construction and maintenance of the Wall. This barrier — a Middle Eastern variation on the Berlin Wall — has been an effective tool in stopping terrorist attacks inside Israel, but it constitutes yet another annexation of Palestinian territory: largely ignoring the Green Line, it cuts deep into the West Bank, occasionally isolating Palestinian towns and villages from their hinterland. Since then, Palestinian and international development plans are consistent with a neoliberal model that brings further stress and suffering upon the Palestinian people and through the drive to individualism undermined the capacity of collective resistance. On July 9, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its Advisory Opinion on the legal consequences of the Wall has confirmed the Wall in the West Bank illegal and has called for Israel to dismantle it together with its associated regime. The cost of building the Wall is unclear. As of 2020, construction of the Wall has been halted. Israeli parliament vote triggers snap election after Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form coalition. It does not surround the occupied West Bank but rather cuts deep into the occupied territory, expanding Israel’s theft of Palestinian land and resources. The newly constructed Route 4370 in the West Bank has been criticized as an "apartheid road." In 2002, Israel started constructing the wall, slicing through Palestinian communities, agricultural fields, and farmland at the height of the second Intifada. The wall has been described by Israeli officials as a necessary security precaution against “terrorism”. Palestinians are not alone in their opposition to the separation wall. Numbers discussed in the Israeli parliament around the same time, the end of 2017, show that Israel had already spent 25 billion NIS (7.1 billion US dollars) on the Wall project. While the ICJ’s decision is non-binding, it found the wall violates international law and called for its dismantlement. The seam zones impact the residents of the isolated areas as well as other Palestinians who are denied access to them, causing Palestinians to be totally fragmented from each other. The report “The Palestinian Periphery” shows how a interlocked policies, , including almost complete prohibition of construction of any sort of infrastructure, lack of services and continued repression, make the very existence of the people on their land an act of resistance. Communities like ‘Izbat Abu Adam, Dar Abu Basel and Wadi Qana are isolated inside the settlement blocs themselves. Rachel’s Tomb is already inaccessible to Palestinians and is being annexed. While the wall, and the land annexation, fragmentation and dispossession is brings with it, systematically destroy any form of livelihood for Palestinians, international institutions have rallied to ensure how dispossessed Palestinian farmers and unemployed Palestinian youth can be exploited in the interest of capital. The land between the apartheid Wall and the Green Line has been declared a “seam zone,” and all residents and landowners in this area must obtain a permit to remain in their homes and on their lands. In Bethlehem and Hebron concrete walls surround the main holy sites, Rachel’s Tomb and Abraham’s Mosque respectively. Eventually, the Palestinian population is to be forced out of these areas. The agricultural lands in the buffer zone have been desertified as Israeli occupation forces removed the orchards that used to be there. 22 Palestinian villages and Shu’fat refugee camp will be completely isolated from the rest of Jerusalem and the West Bank and squeezed into five different ghettos. Thousands more have been injured, and hundreds arrested. Freddy Wheeler/CNN. The Wall in the West Bank has a precedent: since 1994 the Gaza Strip has been surrounded by a barrier that cuts off Palestinians there from the rest of the world.
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