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A 168KM long, concrete and wire section of the barrier separates the East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. The Government of Israel states that the purpose of this barrier is to protect Israeli citizens from terrorists’ attacks, mostly in the form of suicide bombing. (Since 2000, there have been 18 suicide bombings in Jerusalem and a total of 158 people were killed as a result.)

It is still unclear that the building of the wall for the security reason can ever be justified since the borders drown by the existence of the wall is not based upon the agreement from two sides. The barrier only provides physical security for Israel by encircling their settlements to ensure the free, unimpeded access of Israeli settlers to Jerusalem. In the process of achieving the goal, the barrier sometimes cases or cut through Palestinian settlements – As a result, the Palestinian communities lost their access to the territories once closely related to their communities.

Asides from the violation of the international law, the existence of the wall creates very interesting effect between two different communities. Now, totally segregated from each other, Israelis have access to Jerusalem without any restriction, feeling safer than any other times. On the contrary, Palestinians lost direct access in between the rest of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

These facts described above are the very reason of picking this area as the starting point for the Anonymous Networking System. By creating the anonymous communication channel on the wall, the divided communities find the way to reconnect to each other. People from West Bank can continue their education through the networking system. The commerce can be revitalize, and so on. The layer of the networking system imposed on top of the wall will blur the boundary and allow new possibilities in terms of communication and interaction in the area.