The Wall at Abu Dis

The massive Wall being built by the Israelis inside the West Bank was found by the International Court of Justice to be in clear violation of International Law, affecting Palestinian people’s freedom of movement and rights to work, education, health, food and water (July 2004).

Abu Dis suffers particularly badly from the Wall which goes right through the town, affecting every aspect of life, distorting the economy and dividing neighbourhoods and hundreds of families. Some people have papers that let them – young and old – clamber over dangerous gaps under the eyes of Israeli soldiers, or travel miles east to come on a long road west. Others are completely cut off from the rest of Jerusalem.

Very bad news for Abu Dis is that Israel is not only continuing to build the wall to the west in the face of the ICJ judgement, but intends to build a wall also on the east of the town, taking more land to add to Maale Adumim and other settlements.

Read the International Court of Justice ruling on the wall below:

• CADFA wall leaflet pdf
• Pictures of the Wall on both sides
• Berlin Wall is gone but Israel’s inhumane barrier still stands [ Herald Scotland, 13.11.09]
• "Will Israel not build barrier for Obama?" [Jerusalem Post, 26.8.09]
• The inhumanity of the Wall - one small illustration pdf
• "Sweet smell of Abu Dis" [BBC, 19 Nov]
• "Israeli wall makes voting tricky" [Reuters video]
• Powerpoint presentation on the Wall at Abu Dis
• Pictures of the Wall and Checkpoints
• West Bank barrier ruling - Key points
• ICJ advisory opinion
• A Palestinian Woman - documentary film with Terry Boullata
• Abu Dis Report - a film by Tamar Goldschmidt
• Roger Walters graffitis the Wall
• Video [2004] : a priest protests against the building of the wall in Abu Dis
• Building the wall - pictures of the construction of the Wall around Abu Dis from 2003
• UNRWA report on impact of the Wall
• Trail of Destruction
• Quaker writer Helena Cobban describes the impact of the Wall
• Photos of the Wall 1
• Photos of the Wall 2
• Photo of the Wall 3
• Photo album: murals painted on the Wall by Abu Dis students
• Photo of children crossing the Wall to get to school
• Israeli journalist Gideon Levy reports on the impact of the Wall
• BBC report
• Israeli journalist Arnon Regular on lives blighted by the Wall
• A Palestinian nurse on how she can no longer reach her work in Jerusalem from Abu Dis
• Guardian reporter Chris McGreal on the Wall
• French journalist Sophie Claudet on the Wall
• The confiscation of the Cliff Hotel in Abu Dis
• BBC: Building a barrier through Abu Dis - photo gallery with audio commentary
• Film: The Wall of Hate
• Photos showing construction of the wall around Abu Dis and giving an idea of its scale  doc

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