Construction of the separation wall began two decades ago, in what Israel said was a security measure. Its blueprint was approved by the government of the late Ariel Sharon, a hawkish former ...

Desperate to earn a living, some in occupied West Bank are risking their lives to enter Israel amid tighter security.

Twenty years after Israel decided to build its controversial separation barrier, the network of walls, fences and closed military roads remains in place, even as any partition of the land appears ...

And what is the logic of that wall? [Israel announced the separation barrier at the height of the Second Intifada as a means to impede suicide bombings.] Well, first and foremost, ...

A view of the separation wall between Israel and the Palestinian Territories from behind a window in the Comboni Sisters' house in East Jerusalem. | Credit: Marinella Bandini.

At dawn in mid-May, Sayyed Ayyed and dozens of other unemployed Palestinian men gathered at the foot of the towering wall of concrete and barbed wire dividing the occupied West Bank from Israel.

And Israel has no standing rules, so the Attorney General, as well as outside groups, can challenge virtually any policy in court. Everything goes to the courts.

The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within 12 months.

Israel’s separation barrier, 20 years on. July 2, 2022 at 3:39 a.m. by ODED BALILTY The Associated Press ...