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This article from the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) shows how art is being used as a strategy to communicate about rights and repression in Palestine. According to the article, a 425-mile (680-kilometre) concrete and razor-wire barrier, being erected by Israeli authorities, separates Israelis and Palestinians, in some places by a 9 metre high structure. The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel's West Bank barrier is illegal and construction of it should be stopped immediately. The ruling said the barrier's construction was "tantamount to annexation" and impeded the Palestinian right to self-determination. Parts of the barrier's concrete walls are being painted by Banksy, a British artist, to express opposition to the erection of the wall. For example, one image depicts a view through the wall of a sunny beach shaded by palms, while children in the foreground are stuck on the wrong side, shaded by reinforced concrete. In an other, entitled Jacob's ladder, a young Jacob sits at the foot of an imaginary ladder that scales the concrete wall.

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