Separation: "the action or state of moving or being moved apart; the state in which a husband and wife remain married but live apart; the division of something into constituent or distinct elements; distinction or difference between the signals carried by the two channels of a stereophonic system; the generation of a turbulent boundary layer between the surface of a body and a moving fluid, or between two fluids moving at different speeds." (Oxford)
Hableh, a West Bank...
more »Separation: "the action or state of moving or being moved apart; the state in which a husband and wife remain married but live apart; the division of something into constituent or distinct elements; distinction or difference between the signals carried by the two channels of a stereophonic system; the generation of a turbulent boundary layer between the surface of a body and a moving fluid, or between two fluids moving at different speeds." (Oxford)
Hableh, a West Bank Palestinian village, and Matan, an Israeli village, are separated by a wall. It was built in the '90s, prior to the controversial separation barrier that has been built by Israel along the West Bank since 2002. Sitting on the 1967 "Green Line", the wall between the two villages was integrated into the overall route of the new separation barrier. It offers a unique, almost-sterile perspective on the term of separation, and a look at parallel lives on both sides.
The barrier, commonly referred to as "the wall", was not established without context. An unbearable wave of suicide attacks, carried out by Palestinian militants against Israeli civilians in city centers, had cost hundreds of innocent lives and had led the government to launch the barrier project. It was built under heavy pressure, without sensitivity to the needs of Palestinians, farmers in particular, yet it was an act of self defense.
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