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Beauty and Despair

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June 11, 2003 - Israeli troops bulldozed flat the house of a wheelchair bound Palestinian citizen in the pre-1948 town of Al-Lydd, now the Israeli mixed town of Lod. Backed by an Israeli helicopter gunship and over 200 Israeli policemen, two Israeli bulldozers demolished the 40 square meter house of the 23-year-old Hany Zbeidah, a computer engineer, according to a human rights activist at the scene. Zbeidah was forcibly removed from his house, as it was demolished with the contents inside. - Islam Online



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Photos from Budrus
     
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One of the olive groves in Budrus. Budrus, a rural village in the West Bank about 20 km from Tel Aviv, and its surrounding villages are earmarked to be encircled by the “security perimeter,” what Palestinians and people who work in solidarity with Palestinians call the Apartheid Wall.

   
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A 400 year-old olive tree in Budrus. This olive tree and many others in the village could be destroyed by the construction of the wall.
 
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Flowers in a field.
 
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A turtle wandering in an olive grove.
 
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A lettuce field.
   
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Sheep from Budrus.
   
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A shepherd from Budrus. The land his sheep graze upon, may be confiscated by the construction of the wall.
 
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Palestinian shepherdess from Budrus.
   
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The bulldozers work daily in Budrus to prepare for the construction of the wall. The scars of the bulldozers are seen where 50 meters of olive trees have been uprooted. The cleared area demarcates where the wall will be built. Budrus and eight other villages will be completely encircled by the wall with only one entrance/exit through a military checkpoint.
   
     
     
     
             
     

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