TITLE

Life Against the Wall

AUTHOR(S)
Hedges, Chris
PUB. DATE
July 2004
SOURCE
Mother Jones;Jul/Aug2004, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p32
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on the life of the people of Qalqiliya behind the concrete wall built by Israel in 2002 that blocks the neighboring Israeli town of Kfar Saba. Height of the wall; Changes in the life of Nahayla Auynaf since the building of the wall; Treatment of the border passers by the Israeli border police.
ACCESSION #
13670386

Tags: WALLS;  CITY walls;  CONCRETE walls;  POLICE;  AUYNAF, Nahayla

 

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