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++ Prologue ++ ++ "Is it a wall or a fence?" ++ ++ Mending wall ++ ++ "The fence makes the difference" ++ ++ Hearings at the International Court of Justice ++ ++ West Bank closures ++ ++ The road map ++ ++ "The first human right is the right to live" ++ >> Gates, crossings and checkpoints << ++ "We need advocates for justice to speak the truth" ++ ++ "If we can reconcile then anyone can" ++ ++ Separation mentality ++ ++ The road map ++ ++ "Another land grab" ++ ++ Qalqiliya area ++ ++ Bethlehem-Hebron area ++ ++ Women crossing borders ++ ++ Jerusalem-Abu Dis area ++ ++ Artists without Walls ++ ++ "You live us no room to live" ++ ++ "If we can reconcile then anyone can" ++ ++ Jenin area ++ ++ Tulkarm area ++ ++ Mas'ha ++ ++ Demonstrations against the wall ++ ++ International reactions and statements ++ ++ Jerusalem-Abu Dis area ++ ++ "In the Light of the Morning After" ++ ++ Epilogue ++ ++ Video-record ++ ++ Annexes ++

Palestinian villagers are allowed to pass through a gate in the separation fence in order to pick olives from their trees on the Israeli side near the West Bank village of J’barah.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

A Palestinian shepherd leads his sheep through a gate in the electronic fence separating the West Bank village of Zeita from Israel. As the fence runs through the agricultural lands of the village, the villagers have to wait for the Israeli border police to open the gate in order to go from one side to the other.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

Passing through a gate in the separation fence opened by an Israeli soldier, Palestinian children come back from a day at school to the West Bank village of J’barah. The village of J’barah is located between the '67 border (the Green Line) and the separation fence east of it, while the school remains on the Palestinian side.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

Palestinian women wait for a gate in the separation fence to be opened by Israeli soldiers on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Bakah El-Sharkiyah.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

A mother and child wait by a gate of the separation barrier near Umm al-Fahm, attempting to meet their husband/ father to receive a pair of shoes he bought for them. He has an Israeli ID card but they do not.
Photo: Yehezkel Lein / B’Tselem, 2003.

An ambulance waits to enter through a gate of the separation barrier into Habla
Photo: Yehezkel Lein / B’Tselem, 2003.

A shepherd crossing a gate of the separation barreir
Photo: Yehezkel Lein / B’Tselem, 2003.

The checking of IDs at a gate of the separation barrier
Photo: Yehezkel Lein / B’Tselem, 2003.

“You don't build a fence at an investment of millions to be like Swiss cheese, where every senior Hamas wanted man can cross because they have land beyond the fence.”
Israeli Army officials

“Even if the fallah's son has a security past, he won't cross. The fallah should take this into account. And if even one terror attack manages to get through a farming gate, this crossing will turn into a wall. Nobody will cross.”
Netzah Mashiah, General Manager of the Seam Zone Administration
Yedioth Ahronoth, May 23, 2003

Terminals, Agricultural Crossings and Gates
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Ar Ram Seizure Order (06-04)
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West Bank Checkpoints
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Military checkpoint at Ramallah
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Inside Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah
Photo: Anne Paquier / Al-Haq, 2003.

Residents of the West Bank refugee camp of Qalandiya cross through a breach in a barbed wire fence into Israel, a few hundred meters east of a busy military checkpoint.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

Qalandia checkpoint near Ramallah
Photo: Amir Terkel / The Rebuilding Alliance, 2003.

Qalkilya checkpoint
Photo: Amir Terkel / The Rebuilding Alliance, 2003.

Access and ID Cards / Humanitarian Impact of the Jerusalem Barrier: Effect on the ID Cardholders
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2003.
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Permit details

Front page
Date; Civilian Administration; Number of permit; Permit to enter and stay in closed military area; Qalqilya region; Number; Farmer permitted to enter; Seam Zone;
Signature Validity: till from
Attention! This permit is not transferable, details on verso
It is not for entry into Israel
It is for passing through Gate No... with children under 12.

Photo: Eva Simon, 2004.

Photo: Eva Simon, 2004.

Permit details

Verso
1. The permit-holder can enter the Seam Zone only for the purpose stated on it.
2. The permit-holder has to always carry the permit with him together with his ID.
3. The permit is valid only for the person whose name is written on it.
4. In case of loosing it, call the next police station or the authority that issued it.
5. The permit must be returned to the issuing authority within a week after its expiry.
6. The permit is not a legal evidence of owning land or living in the Seam Zone.

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