Mapping apartheid in Hebron
INTERACTIVE MAP
From the information available about the situation in Hebron, one would think it is a strictly religious conflict. However, the reality is that the conflict is about the possession of land. There is no other way to visualize a conflict for land other than with the tool of a map.
The interactive map provides a factual representation of the situation in Hebron, showing how the Old City is being fragmented and altered through policies of occupation. The map shows how the Old City of Hebron is gradually being sterilized to facilitate colonization and the Judaization of the Old City — illustrating how Israel’s strategy is based on the ethnic expulsion of the Palestinian population.
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The primary intention of the project is to give users an objective tool with which to form their own opinions about the situation. Using easy-to-understand graphics, it created a simple tool that sheds light on this very complex social and political reality.
“We fully believe that objective information is a form of nonviolent resistance.”
Since Hebron’s Old City is rarely discussed from an urban point of view, the interactive map acts as a method to understand the current situation in depth. Urban analysis can be used to explain the complexity of occupation by describing the severity of the policies of expropriation, separation and segregation.