ISM warns against the dangers of the Apartheid Wall

Starting July 1 and the International Solidarity Movement started its Palestinian people for Freedom Summer Palestine 2003 - a campaign designed to directly challenge the Israeli occupation policy of caging Palestinians in their cities, towns and villages, denying 3 million people their basic right to freedom of movement. The campaign is due to be concluded by mid August.

"The Palestinian people are living under a brutal military occupation that is a source of a terrible cycle of violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories," ISM said in a statement. "But while the world focuses on the 'War on Terror' a blind-eye is turned to the terror practiced by the State of Israel against a largely unarmed population struggling for their freedom, it added.

Even as the mainstream media focuses on the Road Map, effective roadblocks are being constructed daily - including roads for colonizing settlers that continue to be paved over Palestinian olive trees, new settlement outposts that pop up throughout the West Bank, and the "Apartheid Wall" that is still being constructed to annex land and water from Palestinian territory to Israel.

Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers and roadblocks prevent Palestinians from traveling freely to home, work and school, thus preventing any kind of life for the Palestinian people.

The Israeli government continues to build a massive wall to surround Palestinian areas and turn their ghettos into large prisons. Twice as high and planned-to-be three times as long as the Berlin Wall, Israel's latest project of dispossession has already uprooted tens of thousands of Palestinian fruit and olive trees and has destroyed or isolated from Palestinian farmers tens of thousands of dunams of farmland, de facto confiscating the Palestinian people's most fertile land and most important water wells.