separation wall
Room-splitting vertical panel
A separation wall is a barrier built to divide populations or territories, typically for security, political, or ideological purposes.
The term often carries critical connotations, implying enforced segregation rather than mutual agreement: Critics call it a separation wall; supporters call it a security fence.
The most prominent example is the barrier between Israel and the West Bank, though the term applies to similar structures elsewhere—the Berlin Wall being a historical precedent.
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- divideSeparate into parts
- borderOuter edge or limit
- border controlRegulating cross-country movement
fence · security fence · concrete · concrete slabs · barbed wire · blockade · boundary · segregation · apartheid · West Bank · Berlin · divided city · division · obstacle · fortification · enclosure · buffer · demarcation
- barriersfences, fence, barrier, gates, privacy fence
- Israeli-Palestinian ConflictIsraeli-Palestinian conflict, West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, PLO
- PalestineWest Bank, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Bethlehem, Ramallah
- fortificationsfort, fortress, fortresses, citadel, citadels
separation wallbridge
Structure spanning an obstacle
shared space · common ground · meeting place · free passage · border crossing
separation wallwelcome center
Facility greeting arriving guests
sanctuary · humanitarian corridor · demilitarized zone · reunification · integration
separation, wall, separate, separated, separating, separates, separator, separable, inseparable