Apartheid wall
Of the most prominent events in the third year of the Palestinian uprising, which the question of the separation barrier Israel is building to isolate the Palestinian territories, despite the denunciations, and international appeals, under the pretext of “security measures” to prevent the entry of Palestinians into Israel without oversight.
Although the process of “separation” or “chapter” This is an old idea and responded to by Ben-Gurion, Moshe Shahal has also developed a plan to implement during his tenure of office of the Minister of Police in early 1994, when he said former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, “get out of Gaza, Tel Aviv,” but Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was the first to develop such a plan under implementation. This was in the middle of last year 2002 after the failure of “Operation Defensive Shield” in the elimination of the infrastructure of the resistance, after the latter was able to hit targets deep in Israel’s response to that process .
Wall Standards:
Israel started building the separation wall on the three stages, each stage in the special specifications, the first phase or “a” extending the length of about 360 km, from the village of Salem, the far north of the West Bank town of Kafr Kassem, even the south, with a high wall built from the 7: 8 meters approximately. Israel has carried out about 150 miles, including a cost of more than one billion dollars. It should be mentioned here that after building the first section of the wall and the escalation of international protests, the Israeli Defense Ministry Director General Amos Yaron, Major General Reserve said in a press conference held on this occasion: “The world will not decide whether we will build a wall or fence will be built ..
The second stage, or “b”, which extends along approximately 45 kilometers from the village of Salem and the town of Altiyasir even on the borders of the Jordan Valley, Israel has carried out nearly 30 kilometers of them. According to the statements of Israeli officials, the stage is supposed to be completed in all parts of the end of the year 2003.
Children of the village east of Tulkarem, great after they were allowed to cross the separation fence to go to school
While extending the third phase, which ended the Israeli Ministry of Defense to prepare their own path, from the settlement of “Ilkna” Even the Dead Sea area, the wall will be deeper than the previous two phases within the territory of the West Bank so that they remain most of the settlements west of the wall. According to the remarks of Israeli Prime Minister Sharon and Defense Minister Mofaz, the second phase separate the Jordan Valley and the Palestinian population centers in the villages on the mountain, which strengthens the belief that there is a real intention to increase the length of the wall towards the south, so as to separate the Jordan Valley from the rest of the West Bank.
Specifications of the third phase:
Israel carried out the wall on Palestinian land inside the West Bank and not along the Green Line, with a width of 80 to 100 meters, is composed as follows:
• barbed wire spiral, the first obstacle in the wall.
• introduced a trench four meters and a depth of five meters comes immediately after the wire.
• introduced the asphalt street, 12 o’clock, for the purpose of surveillance and reconnaissance.
• followed by a street covered with dust and sand soft offer 4 p.m. to detect the effects of the intruders .
• Then the wall, a wall of cement-caked metal electronic fence, up more than three meters, vehicle warning devices and electronic cameras and searchlights.
• These are the same facilities from the other side of the wall
The Israelis also had to stabilize the machine with the perspectives of the wall is a small video cameras can be controlled from the locations of the remote control.
The gravity of the separation wall:
Encroachment on Palestinian land to build the separation wall
This is the most serious barrier schemes of settlement in the Palestinian territories since 1967, according to the coordinating body in the Palestinian Standard for the defense of land and settlement in the face of the month in July 2003, Israel joined more than 10% of Palestinian land more fertile and rich in water in the West Bank through this work. It also warned the Palestinian Authority State Information Service in a report issued in this regard, Israel is seeking to seize more than 45% of the Bank in this area of the wall.
The area of land confiscated Palestinian land and the service of the shovel of the wall about 187 thousand acres, mostly in the governorates of Jenin, Qalqilya and Jerusalem, and for which Israel has destroyed a number of buildings and installations.
This has resulted in encroachment on Palestinian land from the many social and economic conditions on the Palestinians, especially the displacement of more than 1400 families in addition to a number of the siege of Palestinian towns and villages between the wall and the Green Line, as well as to isolate a number of other such villages in the image of the “cantons” and those confined between the wall and the so-called “rear wall” being built to the east.
