Conference Three

The wall of separation and discrimination:

In April 2002 the Israeli government approved the plan to construct a wall in some parts of the West Bank and in June 2002 it approved the construction of the first phase of the project. The construction of the wall began in June 2002 continues until today 2007.
The wall of separation is being built inside the occupied Palestinian territories; separating families away from each other and away from their agricultural land which is the source of living for most of the families nowadays.
The Israelis are also confiscating some Palestinian lands to build the wall on, which is violating the International Humanitarian Law.
Israel’s barrier, still under construction is expected to reach at least 403 miles in length (700 kilometers), and the current height of the wall is 25 feet (8 meters).
This wall putting us in many difficulties as an ordinary people and students, when am talking about ourselves as students the wall preventing us from reaching the university, and it takes so much time and much cost of money, because we have to take two or three buses or even another alternate way to get in the university, all these challenges besides the borderlines, check points, the mean soldiers we are forced to live with them day by day.