Israeli soldiers check Palestinians next to the fence Israel is building to separate Israel and the Palestinian territories near the Palestinian city of Qalqilya, Sunday Sept. 21, 2003. Israel says its separation barrier is intended to prevent suicide bombers from crossing into its cities, but Palestinians say it causes enormous hardship to ordinary civilians.[AP]

A Palestinian boy cries as he is helped through a hole in a wall dividing the West Bank town of Abu Dis from East Jerusalem September 23, 2003.  [Reuters]

An elderly Palestinian man scrambles over an Israeli wall dividing the West Bank town of Abu Dis from East Jerusalem September 23, 2003. [Reuters]

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