Apartheid Wall
Updated 2023-12-01
The Separation Wall – Israel’s Complete Apartheid (online book) https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/lists/ACRPS-PDFDocumentLibrary/The_Separation_Wall_Israels_Complete_Apartheid.pdf
2023-11-25 Like the Berlin Wall in the 1980’s the prison fortress of Gaza is a crime against humanity! Tear it down and send some pieces on a World Tour for Peace! Professor Finkelstein is one of the most courageous and principled voices for the people of Gaza! https://substack.com/home/post/p-139150503
2022-06-26 AP PHOTOS: Israel’s separation barrier, 20 years on https://apnews.com/article/politics-middle-east-jerusalem-israel-west-bank-2ce5d9956b729ad6169c880d00068977
2022-06-16 Israel says separation wall prevents Palestinian attacks (video) https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=israel+separation+wall+&mid=4E26AC93891241B7AF024E26AC93891241B7AF02&FORM=VIRE
2021-12-11 Gaza: What the iron wall built by Israel means for besieged Palestinians Stretching along the entire boundary between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Israel’s new $1.1bn iron wall and fence was hailed as the “only one of its kind in the world” as it was inaugurated on Tuesday. For Israel, it was the culmination of three and a half years’ work, the latest in a series of fortifications and security measures that have isolated Gaza and the occupied West Bank, strangling hopes of a two-state solution.
For the two million Palestinians living in Gaza – half of which are children – the hi-tech wall represents more than a technological or security innovation: it is confirmation that they live in the world’s largest “open-air prison”. “The wall left a huge psychological impact on the people of Gaza, especially on the youth,” says Ruwaida Amir, teacher and journalist. “Now it really feels like we are in a prison with this steel wall surrounding us.”https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-iron-wall-gaza-palestinians-siege
2020-07-08 In Pictures: Israel’s illegal separation wall still divides Thursday marks the 16th anniversary since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) deemed Israel’s separation wall illegal. 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, however, have decried it as an Israeli mechanism to annex Palestinian territory as it is built deep within the West Bank and not along the 1967 Green Line, the generally recognised boundary between Israel and the West Bank.
While the ICJ’s decision is non-binding, it found the wall violates international law and called for its dismantlement. It also ruled Israel should pay reparations for any damage caused. 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. https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2020/7/8/in-pictures-israels-illegal-separation-wall-still-divides/
2010-04-29 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall Despite the 2004 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision that called for tearing down the Wall and compensating affected communities, construction of the Wall has accelerated. The route of the barrier runs deep into Palestinian territory, aiding the annexation of Israeli settlements and the breaking of Palestinian territorial continuity. The World Bank’s vision of “economic development,” however, evades any discussion of the Wall’s illegality.
The World Bank has meanwhile outlined the framework for a Palestinian Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA) policy in their most recent report on Palestine published in December of 2004, “Stagnation or Revival: Israeli Disengagement and Palestinian Economic Prospects.” Central to World Bank proposals are the construction of massive industrial zones to be financed by the World Bank and other donors and controlled by the Israeli Occupation. Built on Palestinian land around the Wall, these industrial zones are envisaged as forming the basis of export-orientated economic development. Palestinians imprisoned by the Wall and dispossessed of land can be put to work for low wages.
The post-Wall MEFTA vision includes complete control over Palestinian movement. The report proposes high-tech military gates and checkpoints along the Wall, through which Palestinians and exports can be conveniently transported and controlled. A supplemental “transfer system” of walled roads and tunnels will allow Palestinian workers to be funneled to their jobs, while being simultaneously denied access to their land. Sweatshops will be one of very few possibilities of earning a living for Palestinians confined to disparate ghettos throughout the West Bank. The World Bank states: https://www.projectcensored.org/9-the-world-bank-funds-israel-palestine-wall/
2003-11-03 Backs to the Wall Uncertainty about the future intensified for Mufida Ahmad’s family this year when a mammoth wall ripped through their land in the West Bank village of Jayyus. Ahmad and her husband had bought the quarter acre for $1,400—a hefty but hopeful investment for the family of seven. On it, they cultivated eight olive trees. To pay for the land, and pay off a $4,000 bank loan they had taken to meet the family’s basic needs, Ahmad worked nine hours a day in a sewing factory for a mere $150 a month. But the trees, land, and future for which they had sacrificed have all disappeared under the Israeli Separation Wall.
The Wall—called a “security fence” by the Israeli government and the “Apartheid Wall” by Palestinians—is actually a series of walls, razor wire, electrified fences, trenches, and watchtowers flanked by a 30- to 75-yard “buffer zone” which the Israeli military patrols. The first phase of construction was launched in June 2002 and finished just 13 months later, in July of this year. The completed section stretches for 90 miles in the northwestern West Bank districts of Jenin, Tulkarem, and Qalqiliya. At several points it cuts almost four miles into the West Bank (which spans only 35 miles at its widest section; see the map on p. 29). The Wall has already resulted in Israel’s de facto annexation of fertile Palestinian agricultural land, groundwater wells, and 10 illegal Israeli Jewish-only settlements. Although the first phase of construction was declared complete, demolitions and razing continue around it. The Israeli government has announced three more building phases and it plans to finish the structure by 2005. https://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2003/1103mair.html
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