in a recent edit slimvirgin indicated that the article was already too long and that some information was already mentioned elswhere with the evident intent of correcting these problems she has replaced this the israeli foreign ministry says that the west bank barrier will cause no transfer of population and that none of the estimated palestinians who will be left on the israeli side of the barrier based on the february route will be forced to migrate humanitarian aspects impact on palestinians israeli ministry of foreign affairs july the barrier has been presented as a reasonable and necessary security precaution to protect israeli civilians from palestinian terrorism supporters of the barrier consider it to be largely responsible for reducing incidents of terrorism by from to wall street journal after sharon january not an apartheid wall fence security barrier apartheid wall israel's foreign minister silvan shalom stated in that the barrier is not a border but a temporary defensive measure designed to protect israeli civilians from terrorist infiltration and attack and can be dismantled if appropriate statement by foreign minister silvan shalom israeli foreign ministry march the supreme court of israel ruled that the barrier is defensive and accepted the government's position that the route is based on security considerations the supreme court sitting as the high court of justice beit sourik village council vs the government of israel and commander of the idf forces in the west bank articles with this the west bank barrier which has also been called the apartheid wall isolates palestinian communities in the west bank and consolidates the annexation of palestinian land by israeli settlements statistics b'tselem october the israeli foreign ministry says that it will cause no transfer of population and that none of the estimated palestinians who will be left on the israeli side of the barrier based on the february route will be forced to migrate humanitarian aspects impact on palestinians israeli ministry of foreign affairs july the barrier has been presented as a reasonable and necessary security precaution to protect israeli civilians from palestinian terrorism supporters of the barrier consider it to be largely responsible for reducing incidents of terrorism by from to wall street journal after sharon january not an apartheid wall fence security barrier apartheid wall israel's foreign minister silvan shalom stated in that the barrier is not a border but a temporary defensive measure designed to protect israeli civilians from terrorist infiltration and attack and can be dismantled if appropriate statement by foreign minister silvan shalom israeli foreign ministry march the supreme court of israel ruled that the barrier is defensive and accepted the government's position that the route is based on security considerations the supreme court sitting as the high court of justice beit sourik village council vs the government of israel and commander of the idf forces in the west bank articles she has also replaced this ''israel has created separate roads for israelis and palestinians israeli human rights group b'tselem said palestinians are barred from or have restricted access to miles of west bank roads a system with 'clear similarities' to south africa's former apartheid regime cite web url