Palestinian family cut off from village by Israeli wall
Israel built a separation wall in the Palestinian village of Al Walaja in 2010, leaving a house on the Israeli side. Since then, the Hajajla family has to pass through a gate to get home.
File photo shows Palestinian activists resting at an abandoned building under Israeli control before they start a campaign to commemorate the Land Day at Jiftlik village in the Jordan Valley, 30 kilometers from the West Bank city of Nablus on March 30, 2014.
When Israel built a separation wall in the Palestinian village of Al Walaja in 2010, Omar al Hajajla's house was the only one left on the Israeli side of the wall.
It took him years in court to prove that the land belonged to him and now he has go through a tunnel under the wall every time he wants to go in and out of his home.
And as TRT World's Chelsea Carter reports, the journey for Omar feels less like going home, and more like going to prison.
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