Anata: Confinement to a Semi Enclave

First Israeli settlements separated Anata from its land, and then interim peace agreements split it into separate, unequal authorities that spurred a population boom in urban areas. Now the Apartheid Wall is encircling the town. Prior to 1967, the village of Anata was vast, its 35,000 dunams stretching from the outskirts of Jerusalem down into the valleys near Jericho. Anata was a major thoroughfare, and its wheat fields and olive trees an agricultural heartland.