A dense cluster of apartment buildings rises behind Israel’s Separation Wall in the Shu‘fat refugee camp at the edge of Jerusalem. The camp is home to tens of thousands of Palestinians who live in the shadow of the wall. The towering concrete edifice bends and wraps around the neighborhood in a near-continuous loop, enclosing the camp within a confined and fragmented space, where the city beyond feels physically close yet inaccessible. This sense of physical and visual entrapment mirrors everyday life in the camp, where movement is restricted, access to basic services is limited, and infrastructure is often inadequate or entirely absent.
See Closure and Access to Jerusalem, Neighborhoods beyond the Wall, and The Separation Wall.