The CHAPUISAT Brothers

In Walking Through Walls, Eyal Weizman tells how 2002 manœuvres in Nablus saw the Israeli army launch a new strategy – invading a town or district through homes, walls and ceilings rather than along streets and roads.

‘Soldiers moved within the town through “overground tunnels” carved out of the dense urban fabric. Although several thousand Israeli soldiers and Pa-lestinian guerrillas were manœuvring in the town simultaneously, they had so “saturated” into the urban fabric that very few would have been visible from the air. Furthermore, they used none of the town’s streets, roads, alleys or courtyards, or any of the external doors, internal stairwells or windows, but moved horizontally through walls, and vertically through ceilings and floors.’