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Friday, 25 November 2011
Palestinian children stand to form Pablo Picasso’s Dove of Peace as part of a project by British aerial artist John Quigley and the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), at the foot of the Mount of Temptation in the West Bank city of Jericho November 25, 2011. It took some 1000 children from United Nations schools to create the project produced as part of the “Peace on Earth” project, a global musical prayer for peace which will be broadcast globally from Bethlehem’s Manger Square on Christmas day, a U.N. press release said. (Reuters/Getty Images)
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Members of the ancient Samaritan community pray during the pilgrimage for the holiday of Passover at the religion’s holiest site on the top of Mount Gerizim near the West Bank town of Nablus, early Wednesday, May 5, 2010.
#samaritan #religion #west bank #nablus #palestine
Palestinian farmers harvest wheat during harvest season, on a farm near the West Bank city of Jenin, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Mohammed Ballas / AP
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how many more sent to their graves in this lesson ignored?
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The Separation wall in the West Bank, Palestine.
#west bank #palestine #israel #conflict #the apartheid wall
Israel has built what it calls a ‘security fence’ through the Palestinian West Bank. In reality, it is a combination of concrete walls—twice the height of the Berlin Wall—and razor wire, surrounded by buffer zones up to 100 meters wide.
While Israel claims that the wall is meant to make it more secure by keeping Palestinians out, it actually is serving to confiscate up to 50% of the West Bank, leaving the Palestinians in control of only 12% of historic Palestine. Moreover, the fact that the barrier leaves nearly 16% of West Bank Palestinians between the barrier and the Israel-West Bank border (‘the Green Line’), demonstrates that the result of this barrier will not be to keep Palestinians and Israelis apart, but rather to increase the already major humanitarian crisis faced by the Palestinians. In addition, the fact that the Israeli military has no plan to end its occupation of the fence-in portions suggests that this wall will in no way improve the security of the Palestinian people, who are more than 75% of the victims of violence.
Palestinians caught in between the Green Line and Israel will not be incorporated into Israel or granted citizenship, giving rise to fears that the real purpose of this barrier is to annex Palestinian land to Israel, while making life for Palestinians so hard that they will be forced to flee. The trapped Palestinians will live in isolated communities or bantustans, at times walled off on all sides. This isolation from the consumers of their products and from their means of survival and sustenance—their agricultural land—is speeding the collapse of these already toppling economies. Besides the many families and communities trapped in the ‘no-man’s land’ between the barrier and Israel, the barrier will also isolate the walled-in Palestinian communities from each other. At times the barrier will cut so deep into the West Bank that whole sections will be cut off from each other, creating cantons or enclaves, and, Palestinians fear, destroying any hope of a contiguous Palestinian state. This barrier is a combination of a concrete wall in parts and layers of razor wire in others:
- The concrete wall, now present in Qalqiliya, parts of Tulkarem and East Jerusalem is 8 meters high—twice the height of the Berlin Wall—with armed watchtowers and a “buffer zone” 30-100 meters wide for electric fences, trenches, cameras, sensors, and military patrol.
- In other places, the Wall consists of layers of razor wire, military patrol roads, sand paths to trace footprints, ditches, surveillance cameras and in the middle a three meter electric fence.—The 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.
- In addition to being located by the Wall, some communities in the “first phase” are further closed-off by an “Isolation Barrier”, ensuring they are surrounded on all sides.
- The Israeli military has created “gates” in the Wall; however these do not provide any guarantee for farmers to access their land but instead strengthen Israel’s strangling system of permits and checkpoints where Palestinians are beaten, detained, shot at and humiliated.
#palestine #israel #conflict #west bank #facts
A Foreign activist to an Israeli soldier: “OPEN AL-Shuahada street”… Israeli police have arrested activists during a protest against the continued closure of Shuhada street to Palestinians, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian Territory. 25/02/2011 [DemotixImages]
#palestine #israel #west bank #hebron #conflict
A WALL UP: Part of the Israeli apartheid wall that divides the West Bank village of al Wallaje, left, from buildings under construction in the Jewish settlement of Har Gilo Feb, 2011. The occupied West Bank - Palestine (Baz Ratner/Reuters)
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