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Israel’s Security Fences, Separating Israel from the Palestinians (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Aug. 1, 2003
Report Number RS21564
Report Type Report
Authors Clyde R. Mark, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Israel is building a fence or wall that, it hopes, will prevent terrorist infiltration into Israel from the West Bank Palestinian areas. Many Israelis endorse the fence. Some Israelis oppose the fence because they believe it will become a permanent boundary that will stop Israel from annexing the West Bank. Other Israelis oppose the fence because they fear that it will become an obstacle to further peace negotiations. Most Palestinians oppose the fence because they believe it will define the boundaries of non-contiguous segments of a truncated Palestinian state. This report includes known details on cost, dimensions, and location of Israels fences, and arguments supporting and opposing the West Bank fence now under construction.