The building of it began in 2002. Some places, it is a fence topped with barbed wire. Other places, it is made of eight meter tall concrete. It is estimated to be at least 700 km long – the official, internationally recognised, border between Israel and Palestine is about 350 km long. It does not take a big mathematical brain to realise that this does not add up. In stead of following the internationally recognised border, the wall seizes big parts of the West Bank as it is build around many Israeli settlements that lie within the Palestinian territory. It cuts off farmers from their land, divides neighbourhoods in two, and leaves the biggest water resources on the Israeli side of the wall. The Internation Court of Justice in The Hague has condemned the wall illegal.
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