Correspondent: Behind The Fence Tx Date: 25th May 2003 This script was made from audio tape – any inaccuracies are due to voices being unclear or inaudible 00.00.00 Correspondent Theme Music 00.00.12 Music 00.00.25 Narrator Last year Israel began construction of what they plan will be a security fence running for more than three hundred miles. 00.00.31 Music 00.00.32 Narrator Israel said the fence was intended to prevent Palestinian terrorists from infiltrating Israel from the West Bank. 00.00.38 Music 00.00.52 Narrator Part electrified chain-link fence, part concrete wall the self-styled security obstacle is costing more than a million pounds a mile. 00.01.01 Narrator The Palestinians worry that under the guise of security Israel has other motives for building the fence. As the bulldozers move in the fence begins to profoundly change the lives of both Palestinians and Israelis. 00.01.14 Music 00.01.16 Narrator Raja'a is just nineteen. She and her new baby face being cut off from her parents and the home she was raised in. 00.01.22 Music 00.01.27 Narrator Sandra, an Irish Jew, lives in a West Bank settlement. She must now make a choice; whether to move her family or stay cut off behind the fence. 00.01.36 Sandra I can’t live in fear the whole time. It’s not what I want for my children or for myself. They promised us protection. You can’t just, you know, promise things and then just take it back, you know, you can’t live in a place without feeling secure. 00.01.49 Narrator For many communities the fence brings great uncertainty. The Israelis in this Kibbutz have lived in peace with their Arab neighbours for decades. But as the fence goes up, terrible events will come to severely strain that relationship. 00.02.03 Music 00.02.11 Title Page BEHIND THE FENCE 00.02.17 Aston SALEM 00.02.17 Narrator Salem; the starting point of the fence, just a few miles from the Palestinian town of Jenin. 00.02.28 Narrator Colonel Netzach Mashiach is in charge of construction. 00.02.33 Narrator The meaning of his name is ‘eternal messiah’ and the Defence Ministry expects him to perform a miracle; to build the fence within twelve months. 00.02.48 Aston Colonel NETZACH MASHIACH The main producer of terrorist bombs are in Jenin. This obstacle fence made to prevent them from crossing to Israel. We are making it so urgently after all this huge number of suicide bomb in Israel, explode in Israel. Presently in the last week there were two or three, I don’t remember. 00.03.16 Narrator What’s this noise? 00.03.17 Colonel Netzach Mashiach This is from Jenin. Something from Jenin. Don’t worry. 00.03.26 Narrator The green line marks where Israel meets the occupied West Bank. From Salem Junction the Israeli plan is initially to build a barrier north south for seventy miles in this area. The bulldozers are ploughing up land that has long been hotly contested. 00.03.42 Narrator The first Arab Israeli war ended in 1949; a year after Israel had declared an independent state. 00.03.50 Narrator In another war in 1967 Israel seized land from Egypt, Jordan and Syria. They gave back land to Egypt but still occupy the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza Strip despite UN resolutions. 00.04.04 Narrator Israel has already built a security fence around the Gaza Strip. There have been attacks on soldiers and settlers inside Gaza but no suicide bomber has successfully entered Israel from here since the Intifada began. 00.04.17 Narrator Now the fence around the West Bank has begun. And for the West Bank village of Rummaneh the fence will change the lives of Palestinians who live there forever. 00.04.26 Aston RUMMANEH 00.04.32 Narrator Before the Intifada the local men worked in Israel. Now the vast majority are unemployed as they are prevented from crossing into Israel. 00.04.51 Narrator Nineteen year old Raja'a has only lived here in Rummaneh for the past two years. She grew up inside Israel in Salem and like her family has Israeli citizenship. 00.05.02 Narrator After she married her husband Mansour, she moved across the green line into the West Bank. Mansour, a carpenter, is one of the lucky few who still has a job in Rummaneh. 00.05.12 Narrator Raja'a, eight months pregnant with her first child, has to cross into Israel, to Salem, to see a doctor. There is no doctor in Rummaneh and she can’t reach the hospital in Jenin because it’s under curfew. Her young cousins from Salem have come to help her. 00.05.29 Raja'a Voice over Rummaneh and Salem were always considered one village. My parents and I never thought it would be so difficult. I can’t leave my husband and his family and at the same time I can’t live without my parents and family. So I’m in a dilemma because of this fence and I don’t know what to do. 00.06.04 Raja'a Voice over All the countries have opened their borders. Berlin, for instance, destroyed its wall so I wonder why they are building this fence. I don’t know why the whole world is silent, why they let the Israelis build this fence between themselves and Palestine when in the rest of the world the borders are opening up. 00.06.25 Raja'a Voice over I walk this rough and difficult road because there’s no other way. I can’t get through the checkpoints because they don’t let me and I’m afraid I’ll get shot. 00.06.34 Music 00.07.05 Narrator Raja'a arrives at her parents’ home in Salem. Even though the villages are so close the journey has taken the best part of an hour. 00.07.21 Raja'a’s mother Voice over Do you see her house? It should only be ten minutes away. 00.07.27 Raja'a Voice over That’s Rummaneh over there. My house is in the middle. My brother-in-law’s house is next to it. 00.07.38 Narrator As the first phase of the fence goes up it becomes apparent that it is not following the green line; the border line separating Israel from the West Bank which is recognised internationally but not by Israel. 00.07.50 Narrator South of Salem it begins to cut deep into Palestinian family lands. Around Kibbutz Metzer Israel is proposing moving the fence east, cutting right through land owned by the neighbouring Palestinian village of Qaffin. 00.08.03 Narrator The Kibbutz was founded fifty years ago by Argentinian Jewish immigrants. It’s four hundred and fifty residents say they have always enjoyed peaceful relations with their Palestinian neighbours. They’re worried this may be about to change. 00.08.17 Narrator The left-wing community generally supports the fence but objects to the proposed route. They have offered to give up some of their land for the fence in an attempt to prevent the government confiscating land from their Palestinian neighbours. 00.08.29 Music 00.08.31 Narrator A protest rally has been organised. It begins with a song for peace. 00.08.35 Singing 00.08.49 Narrator Doron, the General Secretary of the Kibbutz, is being supported by Irit, a nurse, in his campaign to change the route of the fence. 00.08.56 Singing 00.08.59 Aston IRIT I, I don’t like fences at all, to start with. I think people should live without fences. A fence is something that puts a border between people like a wall between people. I think I’m quite willing, willing now to do some drastic act about it and not let them, not let them build the fence with my own body. 00.09.28 Narrator When you say drastic, what do you mean? 00.09.30 Irit Like stopping them with my own body, like standing, not letting them, they won’t run me over. Hopefully! 00.09.39 Aston DORON Head of Kibbutz Voice over That’s the Kibbutz and that’s Qaffin and that’s the mandatory border stone. And there’s a stone like this every hundred and fifty metres. Over there is the border drawn in 1949. If you’re building a separation fence what’s more appropriate than building it here where it belongs. Instead it goes right between these olive trees, through where all the trees are planted, all the way to Qaffin. From tomorrow they won’t be Qaffin’s anymore. 00.10.11 Aston QAFFIN 00.10.11 Narrator In the Palestinian village word of the planned route is causing alarm. 00.10.16 Narrator The village is desperately poor and its nine thousand residents have come to rely almost exclusively on their olive and fruit trees to survive. 00.10.25 Narrator One villager, Adnan, still has a job working for the Kibbutz. Taiseer, the mayor of his village and other neighbours, have come together at his house to discuss the threat of the fence. 00.10.37 Adnan Subtitles We must insist that Israel withdraws to the 1967 boundaries. 00.10.45 Narrator Adnan takes his family to visit Irit at the Kibbutz. He wants to enlist her help. Adnan and Irit got to know each other after she helped his sick daughter get urgent medical care at a hospital in Israel. 00.11.09 Narrator Irit’s husband, Yoram, is the head of Kibbutz security. 00.11.16 Aston ADNAN Voice over We are one family. For me there is no difference between an Arab and a Jew. All that matters is that we live together. We don’t need a fence or anything else to come between us. 00.11.29 Irit Voice over What are you going through these days with the building of the fence? 00.11.34 Adnan Voice over This is a difficult time for the villagers. We live solely from our trees, the olives and our lands. We don’t have much space. We have very little. And if they close off the fence tomorrow and we don’t have work what are we going to live on. 00.11.54 Irit Voice over And what do you think will happen then? 00.11.59 Adnan Voice over I’ll tell you the truth. A man has to find food for his family. Without work he’ll either have to steal or kill to get it. 00.12.08 Music 00.12.14 Narrator The picking season is just getting under way. 00.12.16 Music 00.12.19 Narrator Entire families, young and old, have come out to pick the olive crop as concern grows that the trees may be destroyed. 00.12.25 Music 00.12.47 Narrator There’s no time to waste. The heavy machinery is inching closer by the hour. 00.12.52 Music 00.13.18 Narrator Further south the fence is starting to raise questions among the two hundred thousand Jewish settlers who now live on occupied Palestinian land inside the West Bank. 00.13.28 Narrator Ginnot Shomron is a settlement of five thousand secular and religious Jews. 00.13.39 Narrator Sandra and her husband, a Moroccan Jew, lived in London before emigrating to a home inside Israel then moving to this settlement in search of a better life. Now she’s uncertain about her future here. 00.13.51 Narrator Generally would people be surprised to know that there are Irish Jews living in this settlement? 00.13.53 Aston SANDRA They're very surprised. Yes. Some people don’t think I’m Jewish when they, you know, Ireland? I went to a barbeque a few months ago and I went out and bought some beer and the people were shocked; ‘you drink beer?’ And I said, yeah. Nobody drinks in Israel, especially in here. 00.14.09 Sandra Have you got your money and your bag and everything? 00.14.11 Son Yeah. 00.14.21 Daughter Mum, look at me… 00.14.25 Aston SHIMON Since three and a half years ago we living here now and the kids love it, my wife like it. And that’s it, we just live a very good life here. The kids is always playing outside. 00.14.40 Shimon We didn't come here by force. We didn't break any law. We are citizens, even the government actually encourage people to go and live in those settlements. In fact they give you even grants. 00.14.55 Sandra If I was an outsider I don't think I would come. You know, if I was living in London and I wouldn't come out to Israel at the moment and they want me to come back you know to live near them, be with them, they're frightened for me and the children. There was a terror attack about six months ago. Three young people lost their lives and one of them was our neighbour. 00.15.16 Sandra This is actually where the bomb was between those, the pizza, the falafel shop and the sweet shop. Exactly this area here. Everything's blown out. They rebuilt it in a few days. Unbelievable. 00.15.35 Shimon When we came to live here, I used to stop sometimes in the villages. They even invite me for tea, to sit and drink tea with them. Only when I used to buy. I didn't go to any villages like as a friend. Since the intifada started, I think everything change here. Lately we don't even stop at all. We just continue straight. 00.15.56 Narrator The family still has a difficult relationship with their Arab neighbours. 00.16.01 Shimon Subtitles Remember when they used to throw stones? We had to protect the car windows with pillows. 00.16.08 Daughter Subtitles So they were evil to us. How come you've forgiven them? 00.16.12 Son Subtitle Because Dad's a traitor, that's it! 00.16.18 Daughter Subtitles Yeah, because he's a Moroccan, an Arab! 00.16.21 Shimon Subtitle I was born in Morocco, but I'm a Jew. 00.16.30 Son Subtitles We'll have to throw him out of the house. 00.16.36 Shimon The immediate feeling is that we are like they abandon us, they’re building a fence and they leave us behind. We are Israeli citizens, we've got Israeli passports. What it is if we're going to live in Palestinian area. 00.17.01 Narrator Raja’a’s has had her baby in a hospital near Salem, inside Israel. It's a girl named Dua’a. 00.17.37 Aston AYASH Father of Raja'a Voice over It was nice and quiet inside her mother. Now she's born to witness the bombing and Sharon's tanks and his F-16s and F-15s. She's born to see what Sharon is doing, Sharon the great democrat. 00.17.56 Narrator Raja'a's husband was refused permission to enter Israel for the birth. And there's another problem. The Israeli authorities are refusing to register the baby with an Israeli identification document because Mansour is a West Bank Palestinian. 00.18.11 Narrator This is worrying for Raja'a as her child may now be prevented from receiving medical care. 00.18.18 Bulldozers 00.18.32 Narrator Back near the Kibbutz bulldozers have moved onto the land belonging to the village of Qaffin. 00.18.37 Bulldozers 00.18.50 Narrator Taiseer, the mayor, is furious with the Kibbutz. 00.18.55 Taiseer They actually said that they are going to prevent the bulldozers from coming here when they come from the Kibbutz but I am astonished why they didn't do that. 00.19.06 Taiseer This is the small branches. The big branch is, the big road has been taken, has been stolen, I can say. 00.19.17 Aston TAISEER Mayor of Qaffin This village used to be really quiet, all long the time. Considerably quiet. Now after confiscating their food you don't know what they are going to do. From hunger not from anything else. So you see our security is our food. Until now I assure you that our people are still in the shock. They are still in the shock. 00.19.46 Bulldozers 00.19.56 Narrator As the bulldozing goes on Adnan receives an urgent call to come home. His eldest son has been beaten by Israeli soldiers. 00.20.11 Aston FIRAS Adnan's son Voice over He said I can make you a martyr right now. I said I don't want to be a martyr. I only want to find a job and bring home food for my children. He told me to keep running. 00.20.23 Firas Voice over When I couldn't run anymore they began to ram me from behind with the jeep until I had no more strength and fell to the ground. The soldiers hit me and took me to a rubbish site and told me that they could shoot me there and no one would know. He was right. No one would ever know. 00.20.42 Adnan Voice over There's no peace. What peace are you talking about? They talk about peace and building fences to be safe. What safety? They want to be secure only for themselves. Don't we need to be secure? Don't we deserve to be secure? If they need to be secure we also need to be secure. 00.20.59 Son Voice over This fence has ruined our lives. We've lost our land and our livelihood. They treat us like animals. If you lock a cat in a cage without food and later open the cage it will attack you because it's hungry. We don't want to be treated like animals. We demand that all the nations stop thinking that we're animals. We're not. We're humans. 00.21.19 Narrator Netzach Mashiach, the construction chief, has been told to speed up the building of the fence, but no official plan has been released. It is not following the green line, the internationally-recognised borderline, and it is not clear what will happen to Palestinians whose land is affected. 00.21.35 Narrator Does that mean you have to take more land inside the West Bank area? 00.21.39 Colonel Netzach Mashiach I can't tell it exactly at this point, if it's Palestinian or in Israeli territories. I don't care about it. 00.21.47 Narrator And Netzach's boss makes it clear that the fence will not be following the green line. 00.21.52 Narrator …the green line, that's the officially-recognised border. 00.21.56 Aston AMOS YARON Director-General, Defence Ministry Voice over I wouldn't like to say. I don't think that line would give the solution I am aiming for. I'm not outlining a border. 00.22.05 Narrator The settler Shimon has taken his family to see his cousin Chisdai, the mayor of a nearby settlement Alfei Menashe. 00.22.08 Aston ALFEI MENASHE 00.22.13 Narrator The mayor, who is from Ariel Sharon's Likud party, managed to get the route of the fence changed to include his settlement on the Israeli side, at the expense of a large area of Palestinian land. 00.22.25 Aston CHISDAI Mayor of Alfei Menashe Voice over We woke up one morning and saw in the newspaper that my settlement Alfei Menashe would actually stay on the other side of the fence. The barrier would pass us to the west. I went on a mission to parliament in order to gather as big a lobby as possible, to include my settlement and put the fence on its east side. 00.22.55 Chisdai Voice over It taught me a lot about the decision-making process in Israel and I think it's not too late to deal with the issue and to include your settlement inside the fence too. So we could do that as well. 00.23.10 Narrator Under a secret plan the mayor, having successfully moved the fence eastwards to incorporate his settlement, now wants to push it further east to envelope Sandra and Shimon's settlement as well. 00.23.26 Sandra People are afraid. You know, people are moving out. So many people are leaving. It's a shame. But if we knew all this before, what's going to happen people wouldn't be in such a hurry. They'd stay around, you know. 00.23.39 Shimon There is, if they don't say it publicly because until, in Israel it works a bit differently, until it's not something put down as a fact and is actually building then it's not good to publicise it because the left wing, they tell here they could stop the work, maybe not stop it completely, but they could slow the work and stop it. This way is better to be quiet now maybe like Chisdai said. 00.24.06 AMOS YARON Director-General, Defence Ministry Voiceover The fence isn't political and it isn't a border. It'll pass wherever it can help to protect Jews, and if I need to take it further in order to protect more Israeli settlements then that's what I will do. 00.24.22 Narrator Next to the Kibbutz the destruction of Qaffin's trees continues. 00.24.30 Narrator The Kibbutz leader Doron is growing increasingly frustrated over opposition to get the route of the fence changed. 00.24.36 Narrator He has received a letter from the Prime Minister's office, which says his proposed route change could threaten the security of the entire State of Israel. 00.24.46 Doron Voice over "But it will increase the potential threat to your Kibbutz and to the rest of the people of Israel". That's bullshit. 00.24.55 Aston DORON Head of Kibbutz Voice over The Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence sketched the outline, I assume while they were sitting over coffee. Ariel Sharon probably said that he couldn't possibly put it on the green line, because his voters wouldn't allow that to happen. But on the other hand he was in favour of the separation fence. So they sketched an outline but they moved it away from the green line and that's how the outline was planned. 00.25.20 Aston KIBBUTZ METZER 00.25.20 Narrator In a last attempt to save his Palestinian neighbour's land Doron has managed to persuade the Defence Minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, to visit the Kibbutz. 00.25.38 Narrator The minister has promised to listen patiently to the concerns of Israelis affected by the fence. 00.25.51 Doron Subtitle I'll show you this one thing. 00.25.55 Benjamin Ben-Eliezer Subtitles You're wasting your time. No, I'll tell you again, you're wasting your time, because… 00.26.00 Doron Subtitles But I'm having fun standing next to the MoD. 00.26.03 Benjamin Ben-Eliezer Subtitles OK, but you have to bring in the professionals. 00.26.15 Doron Subtitles Qaffin. This is the border that was decided on in 1949. If you look in a straight line, the rocks mark the border. 00.26.36 Narrator The bulldozing has started before you came to visit here. Can you explain? 00.26.39 Aston BENJAMIN BEN-ELIEZER Israeli Minister of Defence The only thing that I concern about is security. They rose here a technical problem that we can check it and we will check it and it will be possible to, to a change the line we’ll do that. Alright? 00.26.53 Narrator Adnan discovers that olive trees, including dozens of his own, are being removed from Qaffin's lands. 00.27.02 Adnan Voice over Look at the trucks over there, the big trucks. Do you see them? They're uprooting the olive trees and stealing them. 00.27.13 Adnan Voice over They uproot our olive trees and replant them only for the media, but when they don't expect the media to be here they just uproot the trees and steal them as you can see now. 00.27.28 Israeli soldier Subtitle No, no, no. Don't film. 00.27.33 Contractors drove away taking the trees right through the centre of the Kibbutz. No one stopped them. 00.27.51 Aston ADNAN Voice over They took the trees and loaded them inside the fence, on your grounds, onto the trucks. Why didn't the Kibbutz stop them? How did you let them pass? 00.28.10 Aston IRIT Voice over Until this moment I didn't know that the trucks had gone through Metzer. I think it's very troubling if that's the case, and I'll look into it. Did you talk to the farm manager about it? 00.28.25 Adnan Voice over You could ask him. We saw the trucks here. 00.28.28 Irit Voice over Why didn't he phone Doron straight away? Why didn't you ask him at the time? 00.28.36 Adnan Voice over I thought the Kibbutz must have seen it. It couldn't have driven through the Kibbutz without anyone seeing it. 00.28.45 Irit Voice over Why didn't you try to do something? 00.28.47 Adnan Voice over I couldn't do anything alone. 00.28.49 Irit Voice over Not alone. Why didn't you talk to me or Yoram? 00.28.57 Adnan Voice over I think that there were some people in the Kibbutz, not you, who if they think about it saw the trucks and didn't do anything. Maybe they didn't see the first truck or the second, but they couldn't have missed all of the trucks. You can't have had so many trucks move through your territory without anyone knowing about it. 00.29.23 Music 00.29.29 Narrator The first section of the fence is nearly complete. 00.29.31 Music 00.29.34 Narrator Dozens of Arab workers have been recruited to work on the project and Netzach is delighted with the progress. 00.29.43 Aston Colonel NETZACH MASHIACH Three fences, two simple, one electronical, and two roads, on east road and one west road. 00.29.52 Narrator So it's a pretty huge fence. 00.29.54 Netzach Mashiach It's fifty metre huge. 00.29.58 Narrator Raja'a is out of hospital with her baby Dua’a but she cannot get back to her husband in Rummaneh. 00.30.07 Narrator The section of fence where she'd previously crossed has been closed off. 00.30.23 Narrator She asks our translator to help her and Dua’a cross the fence. 00.30.41 Aston Salem checkpoint 00.30.57 Translator Hi. We're going to Rummaneh. Rummaneh. 00.31.05 Guard Rummaneh? Jalame. 00.31.07 Translator No no, no. We go here. Rummaneh. It's like two minutes from here. 00.31.17 Guard You not go any further. 00.31.27 Narrator With the fence now erected near her parents' home the only way for Raja'a to get back to Rummaneh is through the checkpoint, but it's uncertain if they'll let her through. 00.31.37 Guard Nobody is going inside. 00.31.38 Translator The thing is, from Jalame to reach Rummaneh I don't know how… Yeah, yeah. But from Jalame to reach Rummaneh no way, you know. If you can just check if we can through this checkpoint, if we can just… Can you check? Can you check again? 00.31.59 Raja’a Subtitle I don’t think they’ll let us through. 00.32.05 Narrator Raja'a is refused access through the checkpoint. No reason is given. It rarely is. She phones her father. He arrives to take her in his own car. 00.32.28 Narrator He heads south to avoid the soldiers and search for another way through an incomplete section of the fence. 00.32.45 News programme theme 00.32.53 Newsreader Subtitles At 11.30pm, Kibbutz Metzer, on the green line… was suddenly violated. A single terrorist entered through one of the gates. Near the dining room, he met and killed Tirtsa Damari. Her friend managed to escape towards the cow sheds. 00.33.21 Narrator The Kibbutz has been attacked and five have been killed. It's in shock, and so are its Arab neighbours, who have come to show support. 00.33.37 Arab man Voice over We do have an excellent relationship. It's a pity that people can't see how Arabs and Israelis can live together. 00.33.54 Irit First thing he’s done, is he went into this house and shot the woman and two children. Her neighbour said that she was screaming out, she heard a screaming out and then a shot, and then shot the two children as well, a five year old and six year old. 00.34.11 Narrator Irit and Yoram receive a condolence call from Adnan whose village is now under curfew by Israeli soldiers. 00.34.19 Irit It was a very personal telephone call to tell me that he's supporting us in our grief and he's very sad, very sad and very shocked. 00.34.37 Aston DORON Head of Kibbutz Voice over We knew that this quiet little corner that has maintained itself for fifty years with friendly relationships between people would vanish instantly when a fence grabbed four thousand square metres from our Palestinian neighbours. 00.35.53 Music 00.35.03 Doron Voice over Even I, who was born and bred with a love for peace and humanity, felt a blow today. Something has cracked in me. I feel hurt, very hurt. 00.35.12 Music 00.35.36 Aston SHIMON Before they was against the government, against the fence-building. Now they change their minds. They want the fence-building quicker than we want. Suddenly it’s like, oh we made a mistake. They didn’t make a mistake thinking differently. 00.36.02 Aston IRIT Everyone said that it happened because there's no fence in this area. So, I still disagree with it, but I say okay to a fence now, you know. 00.36.17 News report on television Subtitles I think it will be different this time. There will be a reaction and it will be big. 00.36.23 Explosion 00.36.24 Narrator The reaction to the Kibbutz attack from the Israeli defence force is swift. 00.36.34 Newsreader Subtitles Dozens of armoured vehicles and tanks have penetrated Nablus. These forces entered from various directions… and did not face any significant opposition. 00.36.45 Sirens 00.36.56 Aston AYASH Father of Raja'a Voice over This is the terrorism. The fence prevents me, the ordinary man, from seeing my children and relatives on the other side. The fence doesn't prevent attacks. It doesn't provide safety or security to anyone, not even Ariel Sharon. 00.37.31 Narrator Even though the gunmen came from the other side of the West Bank and Qaffin was not involved, the village is still under curfew. 00.37.32 Aston QAFFIN 00.37.38 Aston ADNAN Voice over Two children die. They turn the world upside down. But our children aren't they also dear to us. We owned almost a hundred thousand square metres of olive trees, for me and my family; they’re all gone. They took all the land; they left us nothing. I had to sell my wife's gold in order to buy the land to get olives and oil. Now it's gone. We're left with nothing, no income. How are we supposed to live now? 00.38.08 Singing 00.38.11 Narrator Raja'a has made it back to Rummaneh and Mansour has seen Dua’a for the first time. But now yet another problem. If she stays living in the West Bank she's been told she'll lose her Israeli citizenship. It will then become impossible for her to visit her parents or the doctor on the other side. 00.38.32 Narrator So she feels that for now with the baby so young she has no choice but to cross back to stay with her parents, uncertain when she will see her husband again. 00.38.44 Mansour Voice over This house is full with my daughter and wife, but now I will be here alone. This affects me deeply. I'll know them only on the phone, only able to hear the voice of my daughter, my wife and her family. 00.38.57 Music 00.39.39 Raja'a Voice over Of course I feel so sad. I can't describe the sorrow in my heart and the difficulty of leaving my house and my husband. 00.39.50 Music 00.40.18 Narrator The settlers Shimon and Sandra have no problem moving between the West Bank and Israel. They go on a shopping trip inside Israel to Kfar Sava, the city where they previously lived. They're anxious because it's still not clear whether their settlement will end up inside the fence. 00.40.35 Sandra Lately we've been going a lot to Kfar Sava, you know, for social reasons. Before we didn't really move out a lot. But nearly every day or every couple of days we go down to the city. Lately we've been thinking maybe we'll move back into the city. 00.40.55 Sandra You know I want to move. I hate it here now. 00.40.58 Shimon Not because of the… 00.40.59 Sandra Not because of the situation. I find it very boring. 00.41.02 Shimon Friends keep leaving. Not many left. 00.41.05 Sandra It’s not easy. You don't know what to do, whether to stay or go. 00.41.09 Shimon I think as the, as the fence around the cities get quicker built up obviously we start to think that maybe the attack instead of going through the fence into Israel, which will be harder for them, then maybe try like their sayings, their policies, we'll attack the settlements and soldiers. I'm sure like me many people just start to think differently. Maybe they will leave. It's a matter of who's going to come soon - the attack or the fence? 00.41.46 Narrator A decision about the route around the Kibbutz has been reached. 00.41.50 Aston Colonel NETZACH MASHIACH I told you, Army draw the line and there it will be and we check it according to Metzer's question, and we gave an answer to Metzer people. We're not going to move. 00.42.05 Narrator So it's a stand-off now? 00.42.06 Colonel Netzach Mashiach It's a stand-off, yes. 00.42.09 Narrator The route of the fence, which has never been released to the Israeli public, has emerged, and large chunks of Palestinian land are inside. 00.42.17 Narrator According to a World Bank report up to twelve per cent of the West Bank could finally be annexed by Israel, further undermining the Palestinians' potential to establish a viable state. Thousands will be trapped in a no-man’s land between the fence and the green line, their fate uncertain. 00.42.36 Narrator Since the attack Kibbutz residents have begun installing bars on their windows. Doron admits defeat. 00.42.46 Aston DORON Head of Kibbutz Voice over They set us a trap. The government said they're willing to move the line. The route we suggested was acceptable to them, they said. But there were archaeological considerations. 00.42.59 Doron Voice over It would take four or five months for them to get the budget to get archaeologists to check and research the findings. They asked us whether we were willing to take responsibility for delaying the fence another four to five months. What kind of answer was I supposed to give the Israeli public to that? 00.43.20 Narrator Like communities all along the fence, Kibbutz Metzer will now be divided from its Arab neighbours. And the Kibbutz’s security chief Yoram cannot wait. He's putting up his own electric security barrier in addition to the one the government is building. 00.43.38 Aston YORAM Irit's husband Voice over The electric fence helps the psychological feeling of the members of the Kibbutz. I'm also fighting to have a security fence put up as quickly as possible and have it sealed as quickly as possible. We need to say, "Bye bye Palestine". 00.43.56 End music 00.44.01 Voice over You can comment on tonight’s programme by visiting our web site at: www.bbc.co.uk/correspondent Credits 00.44.01 Filmed & Directed by INIGO GILMORE Additional Camera ELAD DEBY HANNA ABU SHAADA DANOR GLAZER ARI AMIT Sound MOTTI HEFETZ DANNI SHITREET Dubbing Mixer PHITZ HEARNE VT Editor ROD HUTSON Graphics Design STEVE ENGLAND LIZ VINSON Production Team KATHY ABU NUARA LI EINSTEIN YANIV TUVIA MORAN BENZER Production Manager JANE WILLEY Unit Manager SUSAN CRIGHTON Research NIDAL RAFA ILAN SHEIZAF Film Research NICK DODD Picture Editor ETHAN SPILKIN Producer OSNAT TRABELSI Deputy Editor DAVID BELTON 00.44.10 Voice over Next week: High hopes for a molecule that kills appetite, discovered in a desert cactus. The story of the anti-fat pill and the Bushman. 00.44.20 CORRESPONDENT 00.44.21 Editor KAREN O’CONNOR © BBC MMIII 00.44.24 End BBC Correspondent 1 1