Old and new walls in Jerusalem

Due to the multiplicity of walls in Jerusalem as well as the activation of various kinds of passage regimes and control, the relations between Israelis and Palestinians in the city were more varied than in other parts of the West Bank. This situation is changing since the beginning of the 1990s from permeable walls to an Israeli gate-keeping and limited crossing policy. In 2002, Israel began to build a system of physical separation between East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Once implemented, it will constitute the most dramatic change effected by Israel in East Jerusalem since 1967. Over and above extending the area annexed, Israel wants to destroy Arab metropolitan Jerusalem in an attempt to achieve by means of destructive walls which will envelop the Palestinian neighborhoods what it was unable to achieve since 1967.