Athens for Justice in Palestine is hosting a documentary screening Tuesday to raise awareness about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its impact on the lives of the people involved.

The film, “The Iron Wall,” shows the effects of the Israeli wall in the West Bank. Its construction raises issues surrounding human rights and international law.

AJP member Ayla Zamangil said the film shows the hardships and injustices the Palestinian people face as a direct result of the Israeli wall.

Zamangil is a sophomore from Tucker who came to the University searching for an organization like AJP and is committed to helping the Palestinian community.

“The Israeli government is in the process of building a 25-foot-high, 400-mile-long wall that cuts through Palestinian neighborhoods, separates Palestinian children from school, divides families and prevents access to hospitals, jobs, [and] grocery stores,” she said.

The secretary of AJP, Aliya Naim, a freshman from Atlanta, said the organization can serve as a source of information on the issue to the University and Athens.

The group is open to everyone in the Athens area. AJP meets every other Wednesday in the Miller Learning Center in room 268 at 5:30 p.m.

“[The wall is] a really huge infringement on the human rights of the Palestinians,” Naim said.

“As Americans, if we give money to anything, if we’re involved with any kind of international aid to a country or to an organization, we should always be aware of the effects of that aid and the effects of our involvement and I think that’s what all the members [of AJP] aim to help people with, to just rethink their preconceived notions of the conflict and what it means for us and what it means to the people that fight within it.”

Shireen Judeh, a sophomore from Duluth, serves as the president of Athens for Justice in Palestine and is a descendent of Palestinian-American parents.

“My Palestinian background and my interest in justice for the oppressed has definitely inspired me to take an active role in advocating the rights of and statehood for the Palestinians,” Judeh said in an e-mail interview. “But I was also drawn to AJP by the enormous support of this cause by students of all different backgrounds. I have learned that this issue is not exclusively the Palestinian people’s struggle, but one that all freedom-loving people and human rights activists around the world have taken an interest in regardless of what race, religion, ethnicity or culture they may belong to.”

Judeh said the documentary will allow the audience to gain an understanding of the conditions the Israeli settlements and the wall inflict on the Palestinian people.

“Our aim is to present people with the facts that are all too often ignored in the mainstream. Part of that is shedding light on the detrimental effects of the Israeli Occupation on the peace process,” Judeh said.

“Without a removal of the illegal Israeli settlements, Apartheid Wall and the overall colonization of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, peace will always be elusive.”