By a majority of 14 to 1, the judges found that the barrier "would be tantamount to de facto annexation" of Palestinian territory. The U. General Assembly later voted overwhelmingly to demand Israel to comply with this ruling but was ignored. The international organization called its member states to "not recognize 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".
Not one step back in the struggle against militarization and for a World without Walls! From until Dec. This has left more than 6, people without their homes, including at least 3, minors. Since mid through the end of , such attacks have numbered a dozen, and killed 64 Israelis. Human rights groups say the barrier has effectively isolated some 60, Palestinians from the rest of the West Bank, and thousands more live in villages surrounded on at least three sides by the barricades, which restricts their ability to move around.
World News Updated. What began as a graduation project became our career. In our view, together with the change of route, the essence of the wall also has to change, so that it becomes connective and not divisive. It needs to become a breathing membrane that makes possible an urban fabric with vitality. If the wall remains, but not as it is today, what will it look like?
The two suggest that it be integrated into the municipal infrastructures, and show how this can be done by means of imaging and maps. One idea, for example, is to demarcate a border crossing at a central bus station, so that the security check is done at the entrance to the bus compound and invokes an airport more than a checkpoint. They also propose a transit point in the form of a pedestrian bridge next to the American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem.
Instead of a wall at some points, they propose a high traffic island that would separate two parts of a street. We are presenting a solution that sets out above all to transform consciousness. Netta Ahituv Mar. Get email notification for articles from Netta Ahituv Follow. Open gallery view. Attorney Nisreen Alyan. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton.
The separation barrier in the At-Tur neighborhood in Jerusalem. Credit: Lior Mizrahi. The Jerusalem separation barrier, by the numbers.
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Haaretz Cartoon. The barrier is about 60 meters wide on average. In urban areas — such as Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Qalqiliyah and Tulkarm — Israel constructed an eight to nine meter high concrete wall instead of this type of barrier. The concrete wall is a total of about 70 kilometers long. The route of the barrier — including the sections already built, those under construction and those awaiting construction — is kilometers long. That is more than twice as long as the Green Line, which is kilometers long.
If construction is completed along the entire planned route, 52, Another 53 kilometers about 7. When it erected the barrier, Israel cut off residents of some Palestinian communities from their land — including farmland and pastureland — leaving the communities east of the barrier and their land on the other, between the barrier and the Green Line.
By so doing, Israel blocked thousands of Palestinians from freely accessing and cultivating their land. Israel did install 84 gates in the completed sections of the barrier to theoretically enable the owners access to their lands.
In practice, however, the gates obstruct access to the land and are largely there for the sake of appearances, making a show of enabling life to go on undisturbed as before. According to OCHA figures for , only nine of these gates were opened daily; ten were opened only a few days a week and during the olive harvest season; and 65 gates were only opened for the olive harvest.
As a result of not having free access to their farmland, Palestinian landowners have been forced to abandon lucrative branches of farming that require daily, year-round cultivation, and many have replaced them with olive trees, one of the most durable crops in the region. Yet even olive trees suffer without regular cultivation. The trees grow sick, yield less fruit, and harvesting even these meager crops is greatly impeded by the thorny weeds whose wild growth among the trees cannot be checked by the farmers who do not have regular access to the land.
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