Israel's Apartheid Wall
Humanitarian Impact and Legal Implications
These documents and overviews provide analyses and assessments of the humanitarian impact of Israel's Apartheid Wall and its legal consequences. Reports included assess impact on movement, education, health, refugees and legal consequences in terms of international humanitarian law. (Added 4 February 2004)

Humanitarian impact of the wall
  • Israel’s Separation Barrier could displace tens of thousands of Palestinians, NRA (9 July 2004)
  • About A Wall, Glenn Bowman (9 July 2004)
  • B'Tselem: "Permit System to Cross Separation Barrier is Racist", B'Tselem (16 June 2004)
  • Over 25 percent of Sheikh Sa'ad residents forced to leave their homes, B'Tselem (24 February 2004)
  • "West Bank Barrier causes serious humanitarian and legal problems", ICRC (18 February 2004)
  • The Psychological Implications of Israel’s Separation Wall on Palestinians, PCC (18 February 2004)
  • The West Bank Barrier, UNRWA (updated)
  • The impact of the Separation Barrier on refugees in Jerusalem, UNRWA (23 January 2004)
  • Humanitarian Access and the Jerusalem Barrier, OCHA (December 2003)

  • Security or Segregation? - The Humanitarian Consequences of Israel's Wall of Separation     (PDF) World Council of Churches (Booklet)
  • The West Bank Wall, OCHA (July 2003)
  • Divide and destroy, Alex Klaushofer (4 December 2003)
  • Living in the Shadow of the Wall, Ida Audeh (16 November 2003)
  • New wall projections: Severe humanitarian consequences for more than 680,000 Palestinians in the West Bank (12 November 2003)
  • Palestinian Rights Committee seeks end to Israeli settlement activities, reversal of building of separation wall (11 November 2003)
  • B'Tselem: 875,000 Palestinians directly harmed by Israel's wall (5 November 2003)
  • Impact of the First Phase of the Barrier on the Qalqiliya, Tulkarm and Jenin districts, UNRWA (Special Report)
  • Is it a Fence? Is it a Wall? No, it's a Separation Barrier (1 August 2003)
  • Special report on the West Bank security barrier, UNRWA (15 July 2003)
  • The Apartheid Wall's threat to a viable Palestinian state, Palestine Center (21 July 2003)
  • Damage inflicted by Separation Wall on Palestinian residents, Al Haq
  • The Wall in Palestine: Facts, Testimonies, Analysis and Call to Action, PENGON (2003)


    Regular humanitarian updates
  • Reports by the Humanitarian Emergency and Policy Group
  • Updates by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
  • UN Documents on the Separation Barrier


    Legal Analysis
  • Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967 (PDF) United Nations (27 February 2004)
  • ICJ and the Wall: Replacing Politics With Law, Al-Haq (23 February 2004)
  • The Separation Barrier and International Humanitarian Law, International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative (2004)
  • Israel's "Separation Barrier" in the occupied West Bank: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law consequences, Human Rights Watch (23 February 2003)
  • The place of the fence/wall in international law, Amnesty International (19 February 2003)
  • Legal consequences of Israel's construction of a Separation Barrier in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (PDF) Oxford Public Interest Lawyers (February 2004)
  • The UN General General Assembly Requests a World Court Advisory Opinion On Israel’s Separation Barrier, Pieter H.F. Bekker, American Society of International Law (December 2003)
  • A case for the rule of law in Palestine, BADIL (23 February 2004)
  • Amnesty: "The wall violates international law", Amnesty International (19 February 2004)
  • Joint Written Intervention, ICJ/FIDH/PCHR (1 February 2004)
  • Legal consequences of Israel's construction of a Separation Barrier in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (PDF) Oxford Public Interest Lawyers (February 2004)
  • The reality and legality of Israel's Wall (24 November 2003)
  • Amnesty: Israel must immediately stop construction wall (7 November 2003)
  • The Violence of Construction: Israel's Wall and International Law (4 November 2003)

    The Wall and Israeli law
  • Israel's Supreme Court decision (PDF)
  • HCJ 9961/03 - HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual v. the Government of Israel et al
  • Military Orders
  • ACRI petitions Supreme Court: open access points in separation barrier, ACRI (29 December 2003)
  • Court issues order nisi on access points in separation barrier, ACRI (21 January 2004)
  • Limiting passage through the seperation fence impedes olive harvest, ACRI (17 November 2003)
  • Closing the Area Near the separation fence is Illegal, ACRI (27 October 2003)


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