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This map, from the Palestine Land Development Information Systems (PALDIS), details the Wall’s devastating effects on Palestinian communities as they are separated from their land while the entire West Bank is being torn apart into disconnected ghettos. If the Wall is completed in its entirety, 54% of the West Bank lands will be walled into […]

In July 2003, families from Jayyus, a village east if Qalqiliya, began sleeping in tents on their land which has been isolated by the Apartheid Wall—the area which is being de facto annexed by Israel. Jayyus has had 72% of its lands and seven groundwater wells isolated by the Wall. Seventy-five percent of Jayyus’ 3,000 […]

The Wall in Jerusalem is finalizing Israel’s illegal annexation of the city by isolating it entirely from the West Bank and furthering the Zionist plan of “Greater Jerusalem”. The following images, all taken by Mahfuz Abu Turk in the spring of 2003 for the Palestine Chronicle, are from East Jerusalem neighborhoods where the Wall has […]

***image2*** More information on this subject is available in The Impact of the Wall’s First Phase on Water in The Wall in Palestine: Facts, Testimonies, Analysis, and Call to Action by PENGON.

The Apartheid Wall coils around Qalqiliya nearly 5 km, imprisoning the city’s 42,000 residents. ***image2*** ***image4******image3*** ***image6******image5*** ***image7***

By Bethlehem, the Apartheid Wall is furthering the separation of the area from Jerusalem. Through Bethlehem city and neighboring communities, the Wall consists of 15 km of razor wire or concrete (as by Rachel’s Tomb) and often built in combination with settler by-pass roads. 15,000 dunums of agricultural land is isolated by the Wall towards […]

On January 21, 2003 the Israeli military destroyed 63 shops Nazlat ‘Isa’s commercial area as part of the process to forcibly expel residents from communities near the Apartheid Wall. Nazlat ‘Isa is north of Tulkarem and now trapped between the Wall and the Green Line, in the Israeli de facto annexed area. More information is […]

The map presented here was produced October 7, 2002 by the Israeli military. It was the first military map to become available indicating that the settlement Alfe Menashe, south of Qalqiliya, would be included on the west side of the Wall—in the de facto annexed area by and for Israel. The military has yet to […]

There has yet to be an “official” map of the Wall’s entire path released by the Israeli military. The following map was the first to become available, on September 18th 2002, in a case filed by the Palestinian human rights group, LAW, to the Israeli courts regarding residents’ lands affected by the Wall in the […]