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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 ++

View of the Jerusalem envelope in the process of construction near Abu Dis
Photo: Yehezkel Lein / B’Tselem, 2004.

The security fence separating the Arab village of Abu Dis from East Jerusalem
Photo: Moshe Milner/Israeli National Photo Collection, 2004.

Palestinian women make their way back from a day in Israel to their home on a dirt hill in the middle of the eastern Jerusalem village of Jabel Mukabar. The dirt hill was placed in the middle of the village by the Israeli government in order to separate the Sheikh Sa'ad neighborhood from the rest of the village.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2002.

As an elderly Palestinian man waits for a taxi to take him to Jerusalem, a family walks by a concrete wall that was erected the previous week in the eastern Jerusalem village of Sawachra. The concrete wall is not continuous but has gaps that allow people to pass from one side to the other, while blocking the movement of cars.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

A view of parked construction vehicles next to the route of the separation barrier, as seen from the roof of a resident of Ash Sheikh Sa’ad, East Jerusalem area
Photo: Eliezer Moav / B’Tselem, 2004.

Palestinian men wait on an early morning for a taxi to take them to Jerusalem. They stand near concrete barriers that were placed the previous week in the eastern Jerusalem village of Sawachra. The barriers are intended to stop stones and dirt from sliding onto houses from above, where work on a separation fence is being carried out; in the meantime, these barriers block the road.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

The construction of the concrete wall separating the West Bank village of Sawachre A-Sharkiya from East Jerusalem, as seen from the eastern Jerusalem village of Jabel Mukabar | Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2004.

Palestinians walk across concrete barriers that were placed the previous week in the eastern Jerusalem village of Sawachra.
Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

View of the route of the barrier in Jabel Mukaber / As-Sawahira ash-Sharqiya. On the left, most of the concrete blocks are not part of the barrier, but were put up to prevent landslides.
Photo: Arik Ascherman, 2004.

Views of the Jerusalem envelope in the process of construction
Photo: Yehezkel Lein / B’Tselem, 2004.

Ash Sheikh Sa’ad
Photo: Nidal K'anana / B’Tselem, 2004.

Abu Dis
Photo: Alex Levac, 2003-2004.

View from Abu Dis
Photo: Alex Levac, 2003-2004.

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