ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the question of the wall in Palestine in its consequences regarding principles and rules of international law. Beyond the sociological or political aspects, the wall also engages the lawyer because it allows for recalling some fundamentals regarding international law, without the wall altering its essential parameters. If the wall, in its generic sense, catches the attention of the community of internationalist lawyers because of its ambiguity as well as because of the interest given to this question by the advisory opinion on the wall in Palestine before the International Court of Justice in July 2004. It remains hardly definable and hardly approachable by the law. The wall therefore leads to a more humanist reflection on the question of limits in international law. The territory and the border have long been envisaged as objects of study in international law, but too often from the sole point of view of the rights and obligations of States.
