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Israel's
Map of the Separation Barrier
Israel Defence Ministry 10/31/2003
The Israeli Defence Ministry's map of the "Seam Zone Project" - the West Bank
separation barrier......more
New
Stage of Separation Barrier: This Stage will Trap 102,000 Palestinians in Enclaves
B'tselem 10/28/2003
On 1 October 2003, the Israeli government approved the new route proposed by the
defense establishment for continuation of the separation barrier. In the same
decision, the cabinet authorized the prime minister and the defense minister to
approve changes in......more
Killing
the two-state solution
By Khalid Amayreh, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 30 October - 5 Novem
Encouraged by international inaction and American acquiescence, the extremist
Israeli government of Ariel Sharon is trying to snuff out any remaining possibility
for establishing a viable Palestinian state in the West Bank. This week, Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced......more
Our
strategy helps the terrorists - army chief warns Sharon
The Guardian 10/31/2003
Fierce rebuke exposes rift between military and government -- Israel's army chief
has exposed deep divisions between the military and Ariel Sharon by branding the
government's hardline treatment of Palestinian civilians counter-productive and
saying that the policy intensifies hatred and strengthens......more
Jordan
valley wall delivers final blow to roadmap
Jerusalem Times 10/30/2003
The Palestinian National Authority “PNA” denounced Tuesday an Israeli plan to
build a barrier along the eastern side of the West Bank in the Jordan valley that
would encircle Palestinians with electronic fences and concrete walls. “The wall
would deliver......more
Economy
in Brief
Jerusalem Times 10/30/2003
New budget submitted to cabinet / Parliament says PMA has no right to stop work
of Abu Ghazaleh auditing company / Wall leaves impact on large percentage of Palestinians......more
Residents
near wall to carry permits
Jerusalem Times 10/30/2003
The Palestinian National Authority “PNA” decried Tuesday the Israeli army decision
to force Palestinians residing near the “Israeli barrier” to obtain special permits
to live in their own homes. Citing security reasons, Israel is building a barrier
made of a......more
Abdel
Rahman: World Against Apartheid Wall, Israeli Government Gave Israel Bad Image
International Press Center 10/29/2003
GAZA, Palestine, October 29, 2003 (IPC + Agencies) - - Ahmad Abdel Rahman, President
Arafat’s political advisor criticized Tuesday American officials for not condemning
the recent Israeli crimes in Gaza, which claimed the lives of 12 Palestinian civilians
within just 24 hours, Al......more
Bush:
There is a Difference between Security and Land Acquisition
International Middle East Media Center 10/29/2003
U.S. president George Bush warned in a news conference Tuesday that the separation
wall, constructed by Israel in the West Bank, “is an opportunity to make it difficult
for a Palestinian state to emerge,” “there is a difference between security......more
Defense
Ministry: Separation fence will cost NIS 7.5b
Globes 10/29/2003
The price does not include the cost of installing terminals. Maintaining the fence
will cost NIS 160,000 per km. -- The initial estimate of the cost of the separation
fence is NIS 7.5 billion [$1.67 billion at current exchange] but this......more
Israel
to erect separation wall along main road connecting Jerusalem with Ramallah
Editorial, Miftah 10/29/2003
Israel’s Army General Mickey Levy, head of the Israeli police force in Jerusalem,
confirmed his government’s plan to build a three meter high separation wall cutting
off what Israel considers as ‘West Bank neighborhoods’ from neighborhoods across
the street that......more
Bush:
Fence will impede emergence of Palestinian state
Ha'aretz 10/29/2003
The fence is an opportunity to make it difficult for a Palestinian state to emerge,"”
U.S. President George Bush said in a news conference Tuesday, after being asked
about the security fence Israel is constructing with the stated goal of......more
Israel
steps up its war against the Palestinians
By Ahmad Samih Khalidi, Palestine Media Center/World Socialist Web Site 10/29/2003
The Sharon regime in Israel—secure in the knowledge that it has Washington’s unconditional
support—has stepped up its military attacks on Palestinian civilians in Gaza and
the West Bank, occupied illegally since 1967. In the process, it has signalled......more
Zionists
to build racist fence separating Palestinian suburbs from Jerusalem
Palestinian Information Center 10/29/2003
Occupied Jerusalem - Mickey Levy, the commander of the Zionist police in occupied
Jerusalem, has revealed that the army was planning to dismantle the Ram roadblock
to the north of occupied Jerusalem when the segregation fence is built in the
same......more
What
Suffering? The Fabric of Life is Not Torn
By Akiva Eldar, Palestine Monitor/Ha'aretz 10/28/2003
When the Defense Ministry director general, Amos Yaron, the chief executive for
the separation fence, is asked to comment on the suffering of the thousands of
Palestinians whose lives have been made miserable by the fence, he tells the questioner......more
“Facts
on the Ground”: Western Coverage of the Wall & the Settlements
By Isabelle Humphries, Islam Online 10/23/2003
In recent weeks Sharon’s Israel has given the go ahead for over 600 hundred new
settler homes and the latest stage of the West Bank wall. But no, I didn’t get
these facts from a visit to the West Bank......more
West
Bank villagers set up protest tent against Israeli barrier
Miftah 10/23/2003
RAFAT, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian residents of this small village near Ramallah
set up a protest tent in a bid to prevent Israel from seizing land for the construction
of its West Bank barrier. Members of the municipal council told......more
Wall
that breaks Rafah's heart
Al-Jazeera 10/28/2003
The view from the top of one of Rafah’s many partially demolished houses is as
strikingly beautiful as it is incongruous. Arid agricultural land, now completely
flattened, stretches out for miles amidst the hazy horizon, all the way into the......more
Egyptian
FM: Israel choosing road to disasters, not road map
Ha'aretz 10/28/2003
MOSCOW/CAIRO - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said Tuesday Israel was choosing
the "road to disasters" over the route to peace by continuing construction of
fence Israel says is needed to keep out Palestinian attackers. The fence cuts
into the......more
Israel
Violates Roadmap Again, Authorizes “Rogue” Settlements
Palestine Media Center 10/28/2003
In yet another violation of the “roadmap” plan, Israel said it will provide services
to eight “unauthorized” West Bank settlements, which it had previously pledged
to dismantle as stipulated in the US-backed peace blueprint. The Israeli government’s
defiant decision comes......more
Israel’s
apartheid wall aims at ethnic cleansing
By Mustafa Barghouthi, Daily Star 10/27/2003
The Israeli construction of the West Bank apartheid wall is clearly a politically
motivated maneuver intent on reshaping the West Bank, rendering impossible a viable
Palestinian state, and with it any lasting peace through a two state solution.
In reshaping......more
Permits
ordered for Palestinians
The Guardian 10/27/2003
The Israeli military has ordered thousands of Palestinians living near the steel
and concrete "security fence" through the West Bank to obtain special permits
to live in their own homes. Palestinian officials said the order breached a pledge
by Israel......more
Powell:
Fence's disruption of Palestinian life is 'troublesome'
Ha'aretz 10/27/2003
Two ramifications of the West Bank separation fence - its disruption of daily
Palestinian life and its seeming determination of the borders of a future Palestinian
state - are "troublesome" for the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Colin
Powell said Sunday......more
Jayyous
Women’s March
International Solidarity Movement 10/27/2003
Qalqilia - Huwaida -25 Oct 03 -- The Village Resistance : A dozen local women
gathered at the Jayyous Charitable Society yesterday morning to march down to
the gate in the Apartheid Wall that separates the Palestinian farmers of Jayyous
from their farmland......more
Between
a rock and a hard place
By Adam Keller, Palestine Media Center 10/27/2003
The landscape seemed highly picturesque: the olive trees dotting the rolling hills,
the strewn rocks, the placidly grazing donkey. Such a sharp contrast with the
congested superhighways and high-rise office towers of metropolitan Tel-Aviv,
a short drive away - a short......more
The
Eastern Route of the "Wall" Turns Peace Efforts Meaningless
International Middle East Media Center 10/26/2003
In an interview with Israel TV Channel two, on Friday , Prime minister Ariel Sharon
confirmed that his security devices are studying the construction of the eastern
part of the separation wall deep inside the West bank and parallel to the......more
Israeli
PM Sharon Says a plan is ready to extend Separation Wall, a bid to build 300 housing
units in two West Bank colonies
International Press Center 10/25/2003
TEL-AVIV, October 25, 2003 (IPC+ Agencies)-- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
said yesterday a plan to build the final section of the separation wall in the
eastern area of the West Bank and would be soon presented to the Israeli......more
B’Tselem
puts case against Israel’s separation wall
Daily Star 10/25/2003
Jerusalem-based human rights group says security is undermined, not augmented,
by barricade - Georgetown University-sponsored forum looks at violations of Palestinians’
liberties, how Sharon government puts political goals first -- WASHINGTON: Does
Israel’s construction of a separation barrier in the West Bank......more
Israel’s
Jerusalem policy, Sparta and apartheid
By Menachem Klein, Daily Star 10/25/2003
In July 2003, Israel began to build systems of physical and electronic separation
in Jerusalem. If and when the plan is implemented, it will constitute the most
dramatic change effected by Israel in East Jerusalem since it was conquered and......more
Life
resembles a "prison" for West Bank villagers left in limbo
ReliefWeb 10/23/2003
BARTAA, West Bank, Oct 23 (AFP) - Cut off from the rest of the West Bank by a
concrete wall to the south and forbidden from crossing into Israel to the north,
the residents of Bartaa say their village has come......more
British
MPs slam apartheid wall
Al-Jazeera 10/21/2003
More than 100 British members of parliament have signalled their opposition to
the apartheid wall being built on occupied Palestinian land. The number of MPs
from various parties who have signed a so-called Early Day Motion calling on Israel
to......more
U.N.
May Seek World Court Advice on Israel's Security Wall
An Nahar 10/21/2003
Arab and non-aligned nations gave strong support to a pair of resolutions at the
U.N. General Assembly that would condemn Israel's construction of a barrier that
juts deep into the West Bank and call on the world court to issue......more
U.S.
to examine security fence route near Ben-Gurion airport
Ha'aretz 10/21/2003
A team of three American airport security experts are set to arrive in Israel
on Wednesday to examine the plan to build the West Bank security fence along the
hills overlooking the eastern side of Ben-Gurion International Airport, near the......more
Arab
Group and Non-aligned States Call the UN General Assembly to Condemn the Separation
Wall
International Press Center 10/21/2003
NEW YORK, October 21, 2003 (IPC+ Agencies)-- The Arab and non-aligned states at
the United Nation General Assembly proposed Monday a draft resolution condemning
the continued Israeli building of a separation wall around West Bank cities as
“illegal”. The representatives......more
Workers
damage Byzantine archaeological site while building Jerusalem security barrier
San Francisco Chronicle 10/21/2003
Israeli Defense Ministry workers damaged an ancient Christian archaeological site
while building a security barrier around Jerusalem, the Antiquities Authority
said Tuesday, and work was briefly halted. The Defense Ministry denied the charge.
Israel's government has ordered a speedup in......more
Senior
UN Officials Urges Halt to Israeli Barrier
Palestine Chronicle 10/21/2003
NEW YORK - A senior United Nations official has urged Israel to stop construction
of a security barrier that juts into the West Bank. The official called on both
sides to step back from what he called a "low point" in......more
Speakers
in UN GA emergency session condemn Israel's construction of 'security barrier',
expansionist policies
Electronic Intifada 10/20/2003
Following the Security Council's failure to act last week regarding the security
barrier being built by Israel in the West Bank, the General Assembly met this
afternoon, at the request of Arab nations, to consider a resolution declaring
the barrier......more
Israel
to speed up barrier work
BBC 10/20/2003
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has promised to speed up building the controversial
security barrier separating Israel from Palestinian areas in the West Bank. Opening
the new session of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, Mr Sharon said the fence,
including......more
Israel
carrying out policy of ethnic cleansing by inducing poverty, starvation, and cases
of forceful expulsion
Editorial, Palestine Monitor 10/20/2003
The Israeli construction of the West Bank apartheid wall is clearly a politically
motivated maneuver intent on reshaping the West Bank, rendering a viable Palestinian
state, and with it any lasting peace through a two state solution, impossible.
In reshaping......more
Could
relocation be translated as transfer?
By Danny Rubinstein, Ha'aretz 10/20/2003
there are signs lately of a genuine fear in the Palestinian public of transfer.
The Palestinian reports tell of enormous damage being caused by the separation
fence along the seam line in Samaria and the Sharon region, claiming that sooner......more
Jabara
residents struggle to deal with fence
Ha'aretz 10/20/2003
Up until October 9, the inhabitants of the village of Jabara thought that their
main challenge now was the locked gate in the separation fence. The separation
fence - two barbed wire fences and between them ditches, trackers' paths, an asphalt......more
Atrocities
of War: Qalqiliya and the Apartheid Wall
By Mina Hamilton, Dissident Voice 10/20/2003
Atrocity: A word to handle with care. Used too often the word loses its power,
slips into insignificance. Over the years memories of unpopular or controversial
wars tend to coalesce around a signature atrocity, one particularly brutal episode.
The event......more
PM
Qurei: Israel Exploits the Situation to Continue Building the Separation Barrier
International Press Center 10/20/2003
RAMALLAH, Palestine, October 20, 2003 (IPC + WAFA)-- Palestinian Prime Minister,
Ahmad Qurei, stressed Monday that Israel would exploit any possible means to construct
the separation barrier and continue settlement activities. Qurei was speaking
in a press briefing in Ramallah following......more
The
Israeli Racist Separation Wall: Consequences and Violations
International Press Center 10/20/2003
The Israeli racist separation wall expelled 1,402 Palestinian families, isolated
210 thousand citizens, and confiscated 164 thousand dunums, most of these lands
are from Jenin, till the end of august, 2003. This racist separation wall is being
built on Palestinian......more
Seven
Farmers Detained at South Gate All Night, One Arrest
International Middle East Media Center 10/20/2003
Seven farmers from Jayyous village, near Qalqilia city, north of the West Bank,
spent the night locked behind the damaged South gate of the Separation Wall by
soldiers demanding the names of those responsible. The villagers, including one
elderly man......more
Soldiers
Harass at Gunpoint Members of ISM
Miftah/ISM 10/20/2003
Two things came to my mind, first the fact that I felt like I was in a Bantustan
in South Africa 20 years ago, the cop reminded me of an Afrikarrner secret police,
his hatred so very clear, his willingness......more
The
Apartheid Wall furthers Israeli Colonization of Azzun Atma’s Land
StopTheWall.org 10/19/2003
Today secondary students in Azzun Atman were forced to remain inside their classrooms
and banned from playing football outside by Israeli soldiers--who then tore down
the school’s Palestinian flag. Adjacent to the village’s co-educational school
in the south is......more
Arab
bloc pushing proposal in the United Nations against security fence
Ha'aretz 10/19/2003
Israel is leading a concerted diplomatic effort in the United Nations and European
capitals to block a UN General Assembly proposal that includes an official appeal
to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to determine whether the separation......more
Israel:
a Bid to Transfer "Wall" Issue to International Court Is "Extremely Dangerous"
International Middle East Media Center 10/19/2003
The UN General Assembly will convene Monday to discuss a proposal, submitted by
the Arab block, condemning Israel for building the separation wall on West Bank
territories. The Arab block reverted to the General Assembly after the U.S. vetoed
a......more
Press
Alert: Tired and Cold Farmers Held Without Food or Shelter
International Solidarity Movement 10/19/2003
Jayyous , Qalqilya Region, West Bank] At 6pm this evening in Jayyous, farmers
coming home from harvesting olives were detained by the Israeli military. They
are being prevented from passing through the South Gate in the "Separation Wall"
and returning to......more
Seizing
Land in Beit Furik
International Solidarity Movement 10/18/2003
Today we again returned to Beit Furik to assist farmers in attempting to harvest
their olive groves. Harvesting seems to be starting earlier and earlier, some
going to the fields as early as 5 am we believe, to avoid the......more
Military
Order Turns Separation Wall into Land Grab
By Huwaida Arraf, International Middle East Media Center 10/18/2003
A new order issued by the military commander of the West Bank announced to Palestinians
that they are no longer allowed to be on their land west of the separation wall.
The order, which was distributed in Hebrew and illegible......more
“This
is our land!”: Jubara’s Residents Reject Israeli Permit System
StopTheWall.org 10/17/2003
In late August 2003, the Israeli occupation forces informed the Red Crescent that
there would be “real changes” taking place in Jubara, a small hamlet of 300 residents
south of Tulkarem. Such declared changes, then not specified yet predictable,
had......more
Fenced
in: Ariel Sharon talks to the ’Post'
Jerusalem Post 10/17/2003
Sharon explains why Israel cannot expel Yasser Arafat, the security fence’s other
advantage, why attack Syria, whither the rabbinical courts, and what to do about
Iran. --Though his premiership enters its fourth year this winter amid ever-mounting
regional mayhem, domestic......more
UN
meeting on Israeli apartheid wall
Al-Jazeera 10/17/2003
The UN General Assembly will hold a special meeting on Monday on Israel's West
Bank barrier after the United States vetoed a resolution condemning it at the
world body’s Security Council. Resolutions passed by the assembly reflect world
opinion but......more
From
winning card to doomsday weapon
By David Landau, Ha'aretz 10/17/2003
The peace camp - pathetic naifs that they are - actually believed that the separation
fence would prove to be the ultimate weapon against those spoiling for war. The
peace camp believed that pressure brought to bear by the Israeli public, battered......more
UN
General Assembly to convene Monday on separation fence
Ha'aretz 10/17/2003
The UN General Assembly will convene on Monday to discuss a proposal by Arab-bloc
states that it condemn Israel for building the West Bank separation fence, Israel
Radio reported. The Palestinians said Thursday they want the Assembly to condemn
lsrael......more
Sharon,
Bush and the race for ‘Greater Israel’
By Patrick Seale, Daily Star 10/17/2003
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his friends in Washington are in a hurry.
They are racing to achieve their objectives before anyone stops them. And when
they are in a hurry, they are particularly dangerous. Syria and Iran are......more
Arrested
while Harvesting Olives
International Solidarity Movement 10/17/2003
Yesterday five ISMers went to the village of Awarta outside Nablus. We wanted
to give support to the farmers during their olive harvest. On a mountaintop close
to the village lies the settlement of Itamar. Last year there were many......more
Israel
Must be Forced to Cease Building Wall say 100 UK MPs
Palestine Chronicle 10/17/2003
The motion said that the wall will incorporate 91 per cent of all illegal West
Bank settlements and 98 per cent of its Jewish settlers and annex the richest
agricultural land in the region .." -- LONDON - A parliamentary petition calling
on......more
US
blocks action on Israeli 'wall'
BBC 10/16/2003
The United States has vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning
Israel's controversial West Bank barrier. The draft, introduced by Arab states,
declared that the structure was illegal under international law and that construction
must be halted. Israel says......more
Palestinians
denounce US veto of resolution against barrier
Daily Star 10/16/2003
Erekat: move will be considered a green light - Jewish state describes result
as ‘defeat’ for Syria, touts America’s ‘coherent policy’ -- Israel voiced its
satisfaction Wednesday after the US vetoed a UN resolution condemning the construction
of a separation barrier across......more
Waiting
wall: Barrier divides land and lives
Daily Star 10/16/2003
Palestinian residents of Al-Ezariya and Abu Dis spend many of their waking hours
at crossing points -- AL-EZARIYA, Palestine: The elderly couple struggled with
their heavy bags. One by one, they hoisted them from a van over to the concrete
blocks......more
Economy
in brief
Jerusalem Times 10/16/2003
More than half of Palestinian households say life deteriorated in August: A new
survey conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) on the
socio-economic conditions of Palestinian households during the month of August
found out that more than......more
Wall
disrupts Palestinian schoolyear
Jerusalem Times 10/16/2003
The Israeli occupation authorities is currently building the Apartheid separation
wall which separates the Palestinian cities - Jenin, Tulkarem, Qalqilia, Ramallah,
Beitlehem and suburbs of Jerusalem - from the rest of the Palestinian cities inside
Israel. It’s expected that the length of......more
Starving
Residents into Expulsion: Farmers’ “Protest Tents” Targeted to Ensure no Land
Access
StopTheWall.org 10/15/2003
The expulsion of Palestinians from the de facto annexed land behind the Apartheid
Wall continued yesterday as some 50 Israeli soldiers invaded the area near the
village Jayyus. The soldiers confiscated the identity cards of some 40 farmers
and residents......more
Al Qedwa Disappointed of US Veto Thwarting UN Resolution Condemning "Apartheid Wall"
International Press Center 10/15/2003
NEW YORK, October 15, 2003 (IPC + Agencies)-- The Palestinian U.N. permanent observer, Nasser Al-Qedwa, grieved over the American decision and said there can be no peace process so long as Israel is building the barrier. "You cannot have this construction......more
In day-long UN SC meeting, Palestine observer says Israeli security wall involves de facto annexation of occupied land
Electronic Intifada/United Nations 10/14/2003
In a day-long Security Council meeting today, 44 speakers raised concerns regarding the security barrier being built by Israel in the West Bank. Opening the meeting, which had been requested by Syria on behalf of the Arab League, the Permanent......more
US leans on Israel to change route of its security wall
Sydney Morning Herald 10/14/2003
After publicly criticising the fence and wall that Israel is building in the West Bank, the Bush Administration is quietly negotiating with the Israeli Government to change the route of the barrier. Israel has addressed complaints raised by the United......more
The Wall in Rafah: Built on the Rubble of Homes and Misery of Families
International Press Center 10/14/2003
The Israeli iron-made wall along the borderline, separating the Palestinian and Egyptian borders, south of the Rafah governorate built by the Israeli occupation forces, has expelled 1,210 Palestinian families, making up more than 7,100 civilians and destroyed 158 Palestinian stores......more
Separation Wall Gate Closed, Villagers Away From Home for 9 Days
International Middle East Media Center 10/14/2003
70 farmers from Jauss village near Qalqyliah are locked west of the separation wall for the ninth executive day without being allowed to go back to their homes. Nine days ago, farmers were allowed to move from their village into......more
New military order sequesters Palestinian land west of wall
International Solidarity Movement 10/14/2003
Kicks farmers out of their orchards, claiming land is “Israel” -- [Occupied West
Bank] Contrary to what the Israeli establishment has been saying, the government
of Ariel Sharon has made another big land grab. A new order issued by the military......more
IDF
Redefines Palestinians West of the Fence
By Amira Hass, Palestine Monitor/Ha'aretz 10/14/2003
One of the questions raised immediately after it became clear that for the most
part, the separation fence would not be built along the length of the Green Line,
but in fact somewhere to the east of it, was the......more
Grave
and Blatant Next Step: Israeli Military Order Calls Wall "Demarcation Line”!
Palestine Monitor/PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign 10/13/2003
Throughout this week, villagers whose lands have been isolated by the Wall in
the northern West Bank found an Israeli military order declaring that the lands
isolated behind the Wall formed a “demarcation border” and prohibiting passage
to these areas......more
Call to Action: Farmers Get Access To Land "5 Times per Year" - Events Oct. 14-16
International Solidarity Movement 10/13/2003
On Tuesday, October 14, Palestinian farmers from the West Bank village of Tora Shakir near Jenin and international activists will peacefully march to a gate in the "Separation Wall" dividing them from their agricultural land and demand that they be......more
Latest donor update on the impact of Israel's separation barrier
Electronic Intifada/OCHA 10/11/2003
The co-chairs of the Local Aid Coordination Committee (LACC) – the group of international donors to the Palestinians -- today released a report on the rapid expansion of Israel's "separation barrier" around East Jerusalem. The report, The Impact of Israel's Separation Barrier......more
Report: The Impact of Israel's Separation Barrier on Affected West Bank Communities: The "Jerusalem Envelope" - Acrobat format
Local Aid Coordination Committee 10/11/2003
Key Findings: The barrier is dividing communities and families and threatens to seal Jerusalem off from the rest of the West Bank. Palestinians along the barrier's alignment face land loss and severely restricted access to jobs, markets, and essential social......more
Al Qedwa Warns US Veto Will End “The Two-State Solution”
International Press Center 10/11/2003
NEW YORK, Oct 11,2003, (IPC+Agencies)-- Nasser Al Qedaw, Palestine Permeennet Observer at United Nation warned Washington on Friday that the Middle East peace process would be collapsed If American veto allows Israel to continue the construction of the Apatheid......more
StopTheWall.org Site Launched by the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
Electronic Intifada 10/10/2003
After months of anticipation, the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign formally announces the new website for mobilizing to Stop the Wall in Palestine, at StopTheWall.org. The Stop the Wall site comes at a time when the Apartheid Wall's pace is accelerating daily......more
Economy in brief: Aid to wall victims, Al-Aqsa Fub, UNRWA to slash aid to Palestinian refugees
Jerusalem Times 10/10/2003
IDB launches $20 million initiative to aid victims of Israeli separation wall - Saudi Arabia contributes additional $5 million to Al-Aqsa Fund - UNRWA says it will slash aid to Palestinian refugees -- The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the Al-Aqsa Fund have......more
Arabs seek UN action on barrier
BBC 10/9/2003
Arab diplomats at the United Nations say they have requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the Israeli Government's construction of a security barrier between Israel and the West Bank. A draft resolution obtained by the......more
EU Criticizes Israel, Demands it to Cease Constructing the Separation Wall
International Press Center 10/10/2003
BRUSSELS, October10 , 2003 (IPC + Agencies) - - The European Union demanded Israel on Thursday to respect the international laws and cease the construction of its separation wall. This statements came during a report presented the EU Council by Mr. Javier Solana, EU......more
Final Status in the Shape of a Wall
By Catherine Cook, Middle East Report 9/3/2003
Around the city of Qalqilya, Israel's "security fence" is a 25-foot concrete wall crowned by watchtowers at regular intervals. In other areas, such as near the village of Falamiyya, it is a complex arrangement of structures that together form......more
Video: Palestinian olive farmers struggle in Israeli fence's shadow
BBC 10/9/2003
Video: Palestinian olive farmers struggle in Israeli fence's shadow......more
Media Alert: Jayyous Farmers To Pick Olives Near Israeli Settlement
International Solidarity Movement 10/5/2003
A Simple Kind Of Courage: Jayyous Farmers To Pick Olives Near Israeli Settlement -- Beginning this week, farmers from the small West Bank village of Jayyous join dozens of other communities across Palestine in the annual olive harvest. This year, plagued......more
Thousands of Palestinians Turned into Homeless as Israel Builds a Separation Wall in Rafah
International Press Center 10/4/2003
RAFAH, Palestine , October 4, 2003 (IPC Exclusive)-- Israel’s separation barrier being built on the southern part of Gaza Strip city of Rafah has so far inflicted 11$million to the Rafah city alone. These losses have included the complete devastation......more
Russia criticises apartheid wall
Al-Jazeera 10/4/2003
Russia has called on Israel to stop the construction of its apartheid wall in Palestinian territory and halt the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. "The activity of the settlements as well as the construction of the security......more
Israel plans 600 new homes in Occupied Territories
Daily Star 10/3/2003
Arafat, Qorei slam route for latest segment of separation barrier -- Israel said Thursday it planned to build nearly 600 more settlement homes in the West Bank, fueling Palestinian anger in a move that all but overshadowed its defiance of an......more
Hamas says West Bank separation fence won't stop attacks
Ha'aretz 10/3/2003
GAZA - The Islamic militant group Hamas said Friday that the barrier Israel is building to separate itself from the West Bank would not prevent attacks on its population and doomed to failure the U.S.-backed road map to Middle East......more
600 More Housing Units in West Bank Settlements
International Middle East Media Center 10/3/2003
One day after the cabinet decided to go ahead with building the central section of the separation wall, Israel issued tenders for 600 new housing units in the settlements of Bitar Ellit, near Bethlehem, Ma'aleh Adomim, near the city of......more
Fenced in, Locked out: In the Shadow of Fortress Israel
By Justin Huggler, Palestine Chronicle/The Independent 10/3/2003
The wall in Abu Dis runs down the middle of a street. You used to be able to stroll from the money changers on one side to the tea shop on the other in less than a minute. Now the......more
Kofi Annan: "Israel's separation wall 'obstacle' to two-state solution"
Electronic Intifada/United Nations 10/2/2003
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed deep disquiet today by the Government of Israel's decisions to continue construction of a separation wall on the West Bank and build 600 new houses in the area, a UN spokesman said. Referring to......more
Map of the Jerusalem Separation Barrier (Acrobat Format)
B'tselem 9/30/2003
Map of the wall constructed to date around Jerusalem -- "The barrier's new route, which was approved by the Political-Security Cabinet on 20 August 2003, has not yet been made public. The relevant land requisition orders issued by the IDF and......more
Noose tightens around the lives of 200,000 Palestinians
The Telegraph 10/2/2003
From the ridge that skirts the Palestinian town of Qalqilya, the white skyscrapers of Tel Aviv seem close enough to touch. Nearer still are the red rooftops of Israeli settlements on the West Bank, jostling alongside the slender minarets and......more
Fenced in, locked out: a people in the shadow of fortress Israel
The Independent 10/2/2003
The wall in Abu Dis runs down the middle of a street. You used to be able to stroll from the money changers on one side to the tea shop on the other in less than a minute. Now the......more
Plans to Judaize Jerusalem call for annexing and expanding settlements
Jerusalem Times 10/2/2003
Khalil Tafakji, director of the Arab Studies Organization, stated recently that the plans announced by Israeli Minister of Housing Avi Itam to Judaize Jerusalem are old schemes established by current Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, when he headed the Ministry......more
PNA Asks UN Security Council to Stop Israel Building Its Apartheid Wall
Palestine Media Center 10/2/2003
Canada Joins US, British and Arab Critics -- The Palestine National Authority (PNA) on Wednesday asked the United Nations Security Council to move quickly to stop Israel’s building of the Apartheid Wall and denounced the Israeli government’s decision to continue construction......more
Arafat: Israeli West Bank barrier 'wall of racism'
Middle East Online 10/2/2003
How long will this silence in the face of Israeli crimes last?' Palestinian leader asks entire world. -- RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday described Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank as "the wall of racism which......more
Israel to extend barrier
Al-Jazeera 10/1/2003
The Israeli cabinet has decided to extend its apartheid barrier in occupied West Bank to include several Jewish settlements, despite international criticism that the wall illegally annexes Palestinian land. In an effort to soothe US concerns about further impingement on......more
UN: Separation Wall Cuts Off 210,000 Palestinians from Their Lives
International Press Center 10/1/2003
GENEVA, October 1, 2003 (IPC + Agencies)-- In a report prepared by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, John Dugard, on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, the report drew......more
Encouraged by US, Israeli PM Sharon Decides to 'Annex' Settlements
Palestine Chronicle 10/1/2003
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Encouraged by the US State Department’s decision not to plan immediate reductions in loan guarantees for Israel and by reports of an US–Israeli deal on the Apartheid Separation Wall the Jewish state is building on occupied Palestinian......more
UN report: “The Wall would incorporate substantial areas of the West Bank”
Jerusalemites 10/1/2003
report that was presented by UN on Tuesday said that the barrier being built by Israel through the West Bank amounts to be illegal annexation of Palestinian territory must be condemned by the international community. The report said as well......more
A Barrier to Peace
By Baha Abushaqra and Barbara Bakewell, Palestine Chronicle 10/1/2003
The sad reality is that Israel is not a safe haven for Jews, and the barrier will
not change this. Only a mutual peace agreement based on respect of international
law and conventions is the guarantee of security and peace......more
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