Bir Nabala Wall: A Devastating Blow to the Palestinian Economy

As a result of Israel’s apartheid wall, the Jerusalem district has suffered immeasurable loss. In a stormy afternoon, Haj Tawfik Nabeli, Bir Nabala’s head of counsel, explained impacts of the wall as we were surveying the damage in the area. Bir Nabala is one of Jerusalem’s many Palestinian neighborhoods isolated from the rest of the city by 181 km of the eight-meter high concrete Wall that is, in Nabeli’s words, “affecting every single aspect of life.”