For this reason, the Israeli Government made the decision to start to build what they called a "security fence" in the northern of West Bank. "The project went little noticed initially" (Dolphin ix) without any idea of the repercussions its construction would have. Harms and Ferry state that the "Security Fence" is a manifestation of Israel's basic commitment to defend its citizen, and once completed, it will improve the ability of the Israel Defense Forces to prevent the infiltration of terrorist and criminal elements into Israel for the purpose of carrying out terrorist attacks or the smuggling of arms and explosives" (175). According to reports released by Israel Security Agency throughout the present conflict, since September 29, 2000, and until the end of 2009, 1178 people had been killed and 8,022 injured, as a result of terror attacks executed by Palestinians. Since the beginning of the period before mentioned until the end of the first continuous segment of the "Security Fence" in the north of West Bank in first half of 2003, 73 Palestinian suicide bombings were carried out from the West Bank, killing 293 Israelis and injuring over 1,900. In contrast, after the completion of the first continuous segment of the barrier through the end of 2006, there were only 12 attacks based in the West Bank, killing 64 people and wounding 445. In general, Terrorist attacks decreased in the subsequent years, coming to happen only 9 case in 2010, which any of them were by suicide attacks (1). "Indeed, the fence has proven its effectiveness in reducing the number of successful terrorist attacks in those areas in which it has been already completed (Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1).
