Due to escalating tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli government began to erect a wall that would span roughly 750 km along the West Bank that divides Israelis and Palestinians from one another. The state of Israel supports the construction of this wall based on the idea that it will enhance their security, and prevent the flow of weapons and suicide attacks against Israeli citizens. Israelis refer to this wall as a "Separation barrier". However, Palestinians disagree with the erection of the barrier, and call it the "Apartheid Wall" since it extends primarily into Palestinian territory and prevents Palestinians from traveling to their schools, workplaces, health care providers and all the while redrawing geopolitical borders and seizing more Palestinian territory.
This is similar to South African apartheid because it implements a physical separation between groups of people that allows one group to have more control and yield more access to better land and resources than the other.
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