The Israeli occupation has created a new high-speed road in Jerusalem with a high concrete wall separating Palestinian and Israeli drivers on both sides. The opponents of the occupation described Route 4370 as the road to apartheid.
This road is only part of an Israeli separation system that has transformed the lives of Palestinians into hell and hindered their access to their workplaces and studies and helped to perpetuate the occupation (Photo from the European News Agency)
The policies of the Israeli occupation are similar to the ideas of apartheid used in the past in the United States and South Africa, which were doomed after a long struggle. The following images highlight some practices of apartheid and its victims.
In this picture, a woman cuts off the road for black citizens who wanted to enter the restaurant section of a shopping mall in Memphis, Tennessee in 1961 to protest the separation policy of the shopping center (social networking sites)
In the city of Strand, South Africa, a sign that the beach is for whites only, in 1988 under the apartheid system (Reuters)
Palestinian children face occupation forces on their way back from school through a security point separating Palestinians from Israeli settler areas in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron,
US police officers accompany first black girl entering Louisiana White School in 1960 (social networking sites)
A young black man defied apartheid policies and boarded a white-only bus in Durban, South Africa, in 1986,
A Palestinian in Jerusalem walks near the Israeli separation wall, which was built to purge large areas of Palestinian land. Reports say the wall violates the rights of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to travel, work and agriculture (Getty Images)
USA Rosa Parks is the icon of the struggle against apartheid when she was arrested for civil disobedience in Alabama when she objected to the public bus separation system (social networking sites from the Library of Congress)
A former US policeman beats a black student who defied apartheid in a Mississippi restaurant in 1963 (social networking sites)
Even within the US military, apartheid was a system followed in the middle of the last century, and in the image a black American military in front of a gate dedicated to "colored" or non-white (social networking sites)
Racial separation in all aspects of life, even drinking facilities, as shown in this picture taken in the state of Oklahoma in 1939 (social networking sites of the Library of Congress)