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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 ++

Fences and concrete walls may bring about “good” neighbors, but only because they prevent any contact with them. The neighbors are neither “good” nor “bad”; they simply become invisible. Waking up in the morning in the Israeli town of Kfar Saba, or the Palestinian town of Qalqiliya just two kilometers away, and seeing a concrete wall outside the window where once there was the urban landscape of the “other” is, for many of us, even more threatening. Invisibility breeds ignorance, and ignorance breeds fear.

David Newman / Tikkun Magazine, November-December 2003.

Israeli construction workers at the site of the new concrete border wall being built along Road 6 near the West Bank city of Qalqiliya
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2002.

Jamal Shrem, a 40-year-old Palestinian man, sits in the front yard of his house near the concrete wall that was built by Israel in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

Waving PLFP ("Popular Liberation Front of Palestine") flags, Palestinian youth demonstrate against the separation walls in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya. The demonstration takes place on the international day commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

A Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to fire a rock at Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against the separation wall in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya. The demonstration took place on the opening day of the hearings held in The Hague over the legitimacy of the Israeli security barrier | Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2004.

The southern entrance gate to Qalqilya
Photo: Yehezkel Lein / B’Tselem, 2003.

The separation barrier and watchtower that encircles Qalqilya
Photo: Yehezkel Lein / B’Tselem, 2003.

Palestinian woman working in the shadow of the wall in Qalqiliya, once known as “the fruit basket” of the West Bank
Photo: PENGON, 2003.

A boy overlooking the wall from his balcony in Qalqiliya
Photo: PENGON, 2003.

Aerial image of the security fence near Qalqiliya, adjacent to the new Trans-Israel highway
Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis / MTI / AP, 2003.

Aerial image of the security fence near Qalqiliya, adjacent to the new Trans-Israel highway
Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis / MTI / AP, 2003.

Israel’s Wall in Qalqiliya Region
Negotiations Affairs Department – Palestine Liberation Organization, 2004.

West Bank Separation Barrier: Qalqiliya and Environs, Impact on Land and Water Resources
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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West Bank Separation Barrier: Qalqiliya, Health Clinics and Schools
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Bad fences make bad neighbors: Focus on Qalqiliya
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