Summary
West Bank city and district in the northern West Bank around which Chapter 1, “Outsides”, of Palestine Inside Out is built: Izbat Jalud lies just south of it, and the wall reached the Qalqilya region in September 2003 (Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, PDF p.55).
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The wall skirted Izbat Jalud and cut the village off from its farmland to the west; access ran through the Azun Atma gate (PDF p.55).
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At the peak of the 2003 olive harvest the army sealed all the gates near Qalqilya in response to a bombing in Haifa, about forty miles away (PDF p.63).
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Al-Ras, a small village near Qalqilya, has 90 percent of its land west of the wall, on its municipality’s figures (PDF p.61-62).
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In Makdisi part 4, Qalqilya is the fullest case of a city walled in: a town of about 60,000 serving another 40,000 to 50,000, now isolated as the westernmost tip of a virtual peninsula created by the wall, with about 6,000 acres of rich farmland absorbed to its north, its souk listless and bare, and its western wall of concrete slabs 24 feet high — twice the height of the Berlin Wall (PDF p.257-260).
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Habla and Ras Atiya, formerly contiguous, are reached through a tunnel under the wall and the Alfe Menashe bypass road; the bypass was plowed through much of Daba’a, whose mosque and main school are now on the other side of the wall (PDF p.260-262).
Related pages
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, Mohammad Jalud, Seam zone, Separation wall