Israel says it will finish a separation barrier around Jerusalem, which critics say will make a viable Palestinian state impossible. The Israeli government says the wall could eventually be torn down.

Expecting Israeli forces to be distracted by the fallout from Iranian rocket attacks, he started to climb Israel’s separation wall. He needed about 15 minutes to get to the other side. But as he ...

WALAJEH, West Bank – WALAJEH, West Bank (AP) — Israel has started construction on a new section of its West Bank separation barrier that Palestinian residents say could sound a death knell for ...

2004-07-14 04:00:00 PDT Jerusalem-- CORRECTION: In the following story, a quotation from Palestinian activist Mustafa Barghouti may have implied that the barrier would be responsible for an ...

Mahmoud Illean. A Palestinian man climbs the separation wall at the town of al-Ram to illegally cross into Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) ...

Twenty years after Israel decided to build its controversial separation barrier, the network of walls, fences and closed military roads remains in place, even as any partition of the land appears ...

Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank encloses land that belongs to Palestinians. And since Oct. 7, many farmers have not been able to access their crops to harvest olives.

Construction of the separation wall began two decades ago, in what Israel said was a security measure. Its blueprint was approved by the government of the late Ariel Sharon, a hawkish former ...

Associated Press photographers talk about their 2022 assignments, and share some of the stories behind the images.

Israel’s separation barrier, 20 years on. July 2, 2022 at 3:39 a.m. by ODED BALILTY The Associated Press ...

YATTA, West Bank (AP) — At dawn in mid-May, Sayyed Ayyed and dozens of other unemployed Palestinian men gathered at the foot of the towering wall of concrete and barbed wire dividing the ...