UNITED NATIONS - Seven years after the World Court declared as illegal Israel’s construction of a barrier in the occupied Palestinian territory, a United Nations report released Tuesday shows that communities and households in East Jerusalem have been isolated by the wall.
“As Palestinians in these areas have West Bank residency status, they have no right to live in the Jerusalem municipal area,” said the report prepared by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to coincide with the anniversary of the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the impact of the barrier in the Jerusalem area issued in July 2004.
The report says that Palestinians “are forced to cross checkpoints to access educational and health services, and even to do their shopping. Their family members from the West Bank cannot visit them unless they obtain Jerusalem entry permits.”
It also highlights the impact of the barrier on Palestinian farmers, whose access to their land in the so-called “Seam Zone” behind the barrier is severely limited.
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