Qalqilya. The 8 meter high wall, complete with watchtowers and sensors. The wall is not manned yet. It will be impossible to come close to the wall then.
Many shops in Qalqilya, once a center for commerce are closed and the economy is in ruins. Very few people are allowed to enter or leave the city.
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The wall is dividing the land of Palestinian farmers and houses are destroyed by bulldozers as well as by construction workers blowing up rocks to make way for the wall. A repeated scenario: the demolishing of houses creates a no mans land. The "no mans land" is then annected and turned to Israeli land. Then a security zone is required to protect the land ......
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A shepherd worried about having to leave his land.
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A security road inside the settlement Alfe Menashe.
Qalqilya and Tulkarem at the horizon.
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A gardener living outside Qalqilya. The wall will run through the community separating people from their agricultural land and from their families.
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The wall foundation cutting right through an orange grove. No information has been given to the farmers.
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March 2003. The oranges are ripe.
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