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Stop the Wall.org (STW) is a "Palestinian movement against the (Separation) Wall." It wants it dismantled and Palestine liberated.
"The Wall is an integral part of the Zionist project to remove Palestinians from Palestine.""The Palestinian struggle is, at its core, a basic human instinct and drive for self-determination. It is a fight against expulsion and subjugation under Occupation."
It wants Wall construction stopped, portions built dismantled, all confiscated lands returned, and compensation paid victims for lost homes, businesses, farmland, orchards, olive groves, and other property.
Projected to exceed 800 km when completed, its route is largely within the Green Line. It's not for security. It's land theft plain and simple, around 12% of Palestine, with:
- 34 fortified checkpoints, including three main terminals, nine commercial ones, and 22 others for cars and workers to control Palestinian movement;
- 44 tunnels, connecting 22 "small ghettos inside 3 main ghettos (West Bank's north, central and south);"
- 634 checkpoints or other military obstructions, including trenches, roadblocks, and metal gates; and
- 1,661 km of Jews-only roads, connecting settlements and accompanying blocs, complementing the Wall.
Combined with settlements, military zones, parks, commercial developments, other closed areas, and open spaces, nearly half the West Bank will be annexed. Perhaps more eventually as land theft continues unabated.
Villages are being destroyed. Others are isolated. Israel's scheme involves cantonizing and ghettoizing the territory, imprisoning its people, denying them basic services, controlling its water and other resources, restricting free movement, and preventing a viable two-state solution.
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