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Haaretz: There's a wall in the way by Gideon Levy

A little girl in her school uniform, her hair carefully combed, was walking to her first day of school on Monday. Walking to school? Not precisely. There's a wall in the way.

A little girl in her school uniform, her hair carefully combed, was walking to her first day of
school on Monday. Walking to school? Not precisely. There's a wall in the way. Trying to
squeeze between the big cement blocks of this wall besieging her home, she nearly manages to get her
little body through, but not her new school bag. Backing off, she tries a different spot where
people climb over instead of squeezing through. She ducks her head under the barbed wire, puts one
foot across, then the book bag, jumps, lands with a thud and runs - in fear of the Border Police who
could show up momentarily. Eventually she arrives at school, still in one piece.

Welcome to the first grade!