his grandfather was killed by the israeli army you know early two thousand and three the israeli military told the home the home they had lived in for over thirty years lay in the path of the so called separation barrier that israel was constructing throughout the west bank the soldiers gave the army has two choices leave the home and let it be demolished so that the barrier could be built or stay in their house and have the barrier built between their home and their village the army has refused to move honey hama gave the israeli military a third choice build a separation barrier between the house and the settlement at first the soldiers agreed but the settlers refused to accept this and demanded that the barrier be moved away flowers and decorative trees destroyed and the military road running in front of the house where that plant nursery used to be the military then built the separation barrier between the hours home and their village but instead of erecting a fence as they had done for other sections of the barrier they built a twenty five foot high concrete wall two hundred forty feet long blocking the armors view of their village as their punishment for refusing to move armors home is now surrounded on three sides by twelve foot high steel fence and on the fourth side by the wall for the first seven months after the wall was built the armors could only enter and leave their home when the israeli military early two thousand and four twenty settler men came inside the army's gate and smashed the family's water tank solar panels and windows with the rocks after the stoning israel's channel one t v station produced a show comparing the armors life to life in a prison embarrassed by this coverage the israeli military reluctantly gave the army as a key to the small gate seven months after it had been built but they threatened the army is that the key would be taken back if the family had any more outside the six children are imprisoned in their own home the israeli military other prison guards honey must ask permission every time he wants to drive to his fields  is trapped at home unwilling to leave even to go to the doctor for fear that settlers will try to a victim while she is out building the wall has not only destroyed the army's way of earning a living but also devastated their ability to simply live off their land the israeli government is trying to force them to move by making their life unlivable mass is a part of the israeli apartheid wall a combination of ditches trenches roads razor wire electronic fences and then places concrete walls rising to a height of twenty five feet under construction since june two thousand and two the israeli government claims that it is building the wall in order to protect the security of israel but the roots of the wall reveals its real purpose over three quarters of the total length of the wall constructed and projected lies inside the  apartheid wall is being used to seize more palestinian land in order to secure and expand jewish settlements within the west bank in july two thousand and five alone israel took more land in the west bank than it village including the army has lost access to over ninety percent of l and when the wall was completed there in november two thousand and three the war is also being used to annex many of the most important underground wellsprings in the west bank in order to divert water to israel and west bank settlements the israeli military has destroyed more than one million all even fruit trees to make way for the wa thousands of palestinians depend on these groves for their livelihoods but such devastation serves to get deeper purpose to destroy a way of life by which palestinians have lived for centuries by making their life unlivable the wall is forcing palestinians to leave their land and move into designated enclaves within the west bank just as native americans were forced into reservations by the u s government over a century ago destroying the way of life by which they had lived for centur or have restricted access to four hundred fifty miles of such roads a system they say with clear similarities to south africa's former apartheid regime the israeli military operates over four hundred eighty permanent military checkpoints within the west bank palestinian farmers workers and children must wait at these checkpoints sometimes for hours before they are searched and are allowed to go to work or school israeli military control of the palestinian movement has directly prevented patients in need from receiving emergency medical care over ninety people have died as a result at least twenty seven of these were children nineteen the the wall at my side is a continuation of the long term strategy of israel to control historic palestine and expel palestinians from their land worked together to stop the wall the resistance continues to this day despite violent repression by the israeli military international activists continue to work together to protest the war and the violence being done to the i am a family and the community of m israeli military again stopped the mural before it could be finished the soldiers threatened the army as the key to the gate would be taken away the painting did not stop immediately they said that painting a mural at this time that same evening after the military stop the mural minera ahmed began painting the rooms of her besieged home with some of the leftover paint she began with the brilliant blue