이스라엘과 팔레스타인 장벽 그리고 그들 스스로 평화모색 (BBC 사진)

Photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer has been documenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for more than a decade, and for the last few years has been concentrating on the construction of the barrier by Israel in the West Bank. Wall, by Kai Wiedenhöfer is published by Steidl.

 

 

Machmoud al-Azza and a mother and child attempt to cross a temporary 2.5m barrier in 2003. The border patrol officers were indifferent and ordered them to use the next Israeli checkpoint, a detour of 8km.

 

A section of the barrier at Abu Dis. Israel says the barrier is needed to stop suicide bombers, while Palestinians say it is part of an Israeli land grab of West Bank territory. The World Court has ruled that the barrier is illegal and should be moved.

 

 

In November 2004 Wiedenhöfer recorded Palestinians passing through a provisional barrier at the Bawabe checkpoint, which was only possible through a hole in the upper section

 

 

A Palestinian man argues with a member of the Israeli border patrol, 2003..

 

 

 

 

 

A woman passes a barrier built as a protection against small arms fire in the settlement of Gilo.

 

 

 

Schoolgirls pass through segments of the barrier in Sauwahri, October 2003

 

 

 

Abu Adnan Schawarib, 70, walks alongside the barrier in Nazlat Isa. on the Israeli side of the barrier the town of Baqa ar-Rarbiya is inhabited by Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. Many families were split when the barrier was constructed.