Israel's security barrier in and around the West Bank is about 60 percent complete. Israel says it was designed as a barrier against suicide bombers, but Palestinians say it's a land grab.
One east Jerusalem community has been essentially cut off from the rest of the city by a new barrier erected two weeks ago.
It's afternoon in Ras Khamis in east Jerusalem and Palestinian schoolchildren carefully walk through two sets of rotating metal doors between an Israeli checkpoint and watchtower.
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