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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 ++

West Bank Closure – Bethlehem
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2004
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Palestinian construction workers at the site of the separation wall between Jerusalem and the West Bank Palestinian village of Beit Jallah. The "Tunnel Road" overhead is used by Israelis to bypass Palestinian territory on their way to the Jewish settlements. Since the outbreak of the second Intifada, Palestinian militants in Beit Jallah have occasionally fired on the neighborhood of Gilo, considered a settlement by the Palestinians.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

Reporters and photographers hiding behind bulletproof walls in Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem during an IDF operation to take out Palestinian terrorists in Beit Jalla | Photo: Moshe Milner / Israeli National Photo Collection, 2001.

The Rachel's Tomb compound at the entrance to the West Bank city of Bethlehem. As a Jewish holy site, Rachel's Tomb is now fortified with concrete walls and is slated for annexation to Jerusalem.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2002.

An Israeli army excavator works on the construction of the fence between Gilo in the southern part of Jerusalem and Beit Jalla in the West Bank
Photo: Ilan Mizrachi / MTI / AP, 2002.

Completed separation fence in the southern part of Bethlehem with Har Homa settlement in the background
Photo: Amir Terkel / The Rebuilding Alliance, 2003.

Bethlehem Governorate lands that Israel designates to segregate behind the segregation wall
ARIJ, 2003.

Temporary (razor wire) fence around Bethlehem
Photo: Amir Terkel / The Rebuilding Alliance, 2003.

The separation fence cuts right through the residents’ yards in the southern Bethlehem area
Photo: Amir Terkel / The Rebuilding Alliance, 2003.

The separation barrier near Beit Sahour
Photo: PENGON, 2003.

The wall from Bethlehem to Beit Sahour
Photo: PENGON, 2003.

Israel’s 8-meter Wall around Bethlehem. Israeli military order T/14/03 confiscated 36 dunums of Palestinian land, creating another Palestinian “ghetto” where four homes and approximately sixty people are trapped between Israel’s Wall and the Gilo settler-only bypass road.
Photo: Negotiations Affairs Department – Palestine Liberation Organization, 2004.

West Bank Closures – Hebron
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2004
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