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| An Israeli soldier watches while a construction crew puts part of the Aparthied Wall in place near Qalqiliya, which is now completely encircled by the wall - photo by Ronald de Hommel |
Fact Sheet: The Apartheid Wall (PDF)
MIFTAH 4/1/2005
Within the “first phase”, 16 villages west of the Wall have been de facto annexed to Israel and some 50 villages are separated from their lands.Apartheid Wall: Land Theft and Forced Expulsion: The Wall is not being built on, or in most cases near the 1967 Green Line, but rather cuts deep into the West Bank, expanding Israel's theft of Palestinian land and resources. When completed, the Wall will de facto annex some 47% of the West Bank, isolating communities into bantustans, enclaves and “military zones”.The Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including almost 1.5 million refugees, will be living on only 12% of historic Palestine.Nearly 16% of Palestinians in the West Bank will be “outside” the Wall in the de facto annexed areas by Israel and in unbearable living conditions - the loss of land, markets, movement and livelihoods - and faced with expulsion. This includes over 200,000 residents of East Jerusalem, who will be totally isolated from the rest of the West Bank. 98 % of the settler population will be included in the de facto annexed areas. The Wall is not a new “idea” - since 1994 the Gaza Strip has been surrounded by a barrier which cuts off the residents from the rest of the world; in the past year Israel has been expanding this barrier as well as building a new “Iron Wall”. more..
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| What remain of Bassim Wakid's olive groves. Behind, construction on the wall continues. (Darren Ell) |
Lost Dreams in Deir Al Ghosoon
International Press Center 6/3/2004
TULKAREM, Palestine, June 3, 2004 (IPC)-- The construction of the Israeli Apartheid Wall through the lands of the Deir Al Ghosoon Village in Tulkarem province continue to leave scars on the daily life and suffering of the villagers there, increasing the psychological and economic burdens on their shoulders.Most of the villagers in Deir Al Ghosoon have lost parts of their lands or all of them to the Israeli Apartheid Wall. The village, which used to be the largest agricultural area in the province, depended mainly on farming and a large percentage of the population have lost their source of livelihood without any consideration for their legal rights or future prospects.The Israeli Apartheid Wall has so far expropriated 3,000 dunums of land from the village's 7,000 inhabitants, which constituted 20% of the total area of the village.Emad Ghanem, 30, looked in torment at his land that was expropriated by the Israeli occupation; the land that he inherited from his forefathers. 30 dunums have been expropriated from his lands "like 30 pieces of my body have been ripped off," Ghanem said. more..
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all the problems, the residents of Mazmuriah have refused to abandon their village.
But now the Israeli authorities are beginning a new stage in their attack. This
time, the weapon is the 'separation fence' being built around Jerusalem - Tayuush
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How to suffocate a people
By Lynda Wafi and Saud Abu Ramadan, Middle East Times 8/14/2003
Raed Zeid, a six-year-old Palestinian boy from the village of Toura Al Sharqeya, west of the northern West Bank town of Jenin, used to carry his schoolbag and walk to the adjacent village of Nazlet Zeid, where his elementary school is located. He ignored Israeli bulldozers and workers building the security fence between the West Bank and Israel.Every day, he crossed on foot vast areas of land that were being leveled and razed by the Israeli army, and passed Israeli army machinery. He was indifferent to what was happening.One cool, sunny morning, Raed left his home as usual and started his morning walk to school, but when he returned, there was a big fence separating him from the solitary house that was built in line with the Jewish settlement of Shakid.Despite international opposition to the security wall, Israel has continued to build it between the West Bank and Gaza. The wall is not situated on the 1967 borders between the occupied territories and Israel; it has been constructed where a vast area of Palestinian property has been confiscated and villages isolated from the Palestinian community.That day, Raed did not know what to do. He searched for a gap in the fence, but there was not even enough space for a cat to cross. He grabbed the fence with his small hands and shook it as hard as he could, but still it was there and his home unreachable.Nael Zeid, Raed's father, said that discovering the fence left a psychological impact on his child. He has lost concentration in class, and fear crosses his face when he sees armored vehicles and Israeli troops working on the fence. more..
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| A portion
of the separation wall along side Qalqiliya, The West Bank, 7 July, 2003. Photo:
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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 almost entirely. The orders, which constitute a grave and blatant next step in Israel’s illegal land grab, come at the same time that the United Nations postponed voting on a Security Council resolution regarding Israel’s Apartheid Wall.The military order was issued on October 2nd, but villagers found it this week pinned under rocks on land west of the Wall—in the isolated/de facto annexed area where few Palestinians are able to reach. The order pertains to all communities along the Wall’s “first phase” path, from northern Jenin by Salem, where Wall construction began in June 2002, to the village Mas-ha in the Salfit district. An insufficient and inaccurate official Arabic translation by the Israeli military was attached to the original Hebrew order; the translation of the “demarcation boarder” as well as the following information came from the Arabic version. more..
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Jerusalem Conference Calls to Revitalize the Capacities to Protect the City
International Press Center 4/3/2005
GAZA, Palestine, April 3, 2005 (IPC+Agencies) ---The National Conference For Defense Of Jerusalem accused yesterday the Israeli occupation forces of having blatantly slammed the international legitimate resolutions and ICJ ruling deciding the illegality of the apartheid wall- land grab- , as it persistently expanded lands...
Fact Sheet: The Apartheid Wall (PDF)
MIFTAH 4/1/2005
i>Within the “first phase”, 16 villages west of the Wall have been de facto annexed to Israel and some 50 villages are separated from their lands.Apartheid Wall: Land Theft and Forced Expulsion: The Wall is not being built on, or in most...
Israel Builds a New Segment of the Wall
International Press Center 3/29/2005
GAZA, Palestine, March 29,2005 (IPC+Agencies)--The Israeli state run-Radio reported today morning that the Israeli occupation force will commence on next Wednesday the construction of a new segment of the Apartheid Wall- land grab- in the southern area with 43 Square kilometer long , stretching...
Half a Million Palestinians Are Victims of the Revised Wall
International Press Center 3/26/2005
GAZA, Palestine, March26,2005(IPC+Agencies)---The Israeli Information Center For Human Rights in the occupied (B'Tselem) reported that the number of the Palestinians damaged by updated rout of the Apartheid Wall -land grab- approved by the Israeli government reached nearly a half million, living in...
'Incitement' may be just another word for writing the truth
Daily Star 3/25/2005
The Israeli demand that the Palestinian Authority halt incitement against Israel in the Palestinian media and school system is well known. It is a justified demand. Ever since the Oslo Accord was signed more than a decade ago, the issue has come up again and...
Israel Builds New "Separation Wall" Around Gaza
Islam Online 3/16/2005
GAZA CITY, March 16, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Israel is planning to build a new separation wall around the Gaza Strip just to grab more Palestinian territories, Palestinian experts warned on Wednesday, March 16. "The wall will be built along the eastern and northern Gaza borders toward...
Protest against the Wall in Ramallah several residents injured
International Middle East Media Center 3/8/2005
Tuesday after noon, dozens of residents protested in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah, against the expropriation of lands for the construction of the annexation wall. Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs at the protestors and attempted to bar them from reaching their lands which...
Israel renews Wall construction in Salfit district(Friday prayer held in Deir Ballut to protest land
International Solidarity Movement 3/3/2005
Friday prayer held in Deir Ballut to protest land destruction -- On Friday March 4 at 10am, Palestinians in the southwest Salfit district will hold Friday prayers in Deir Ballut to protest the construction of the Wall on their land. The Popular Committee against the Wall...
Israeli Forces Wound Several Civilians in Beit Sureek
International Press Center 3/4/2005
JERUSALEM, Palestine, March 2, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Israeli occupation forces wounded several civilians during a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall in the village of Beit Sureek, as troops besieged the campus of Al Quds University. Eyewitnesses told WAFA news agency that Israeli forces opened fire...
Hamas: Israeli tactics threaten peace
AlJazeera 3/1/2005
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned that a fragile ceasefire with Israel could collapse if Israel continued to ignore Palestinian concerns, including the illegality of building a gigantic separation wall inside the West Bank. "Israel must realize that this is not an open-ended truce...
State Department: the Israeli Wall Has Become a Problem
International Press Center 2/23/2005
GAZA, February 23, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - The US State Department asserted that the Apartheid Wall Israel is building in the occupied Palestinian territories has become a problem, as it expropriated Palestinian lands and lead to creating other problems.State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher said in a...
Israeli Troops Continue Attacks In OPT Despite Cease Fire
International Press Center 2/14/2005
GAZA, Palestine, February 14, 2005 (IPC+WAFA)--Despite ongoing understandings between the Israeli and Palestinian sides on a ceasefire, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have launched more land expropriation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). IOF have continued to construct the annexation wall inside the West...
Despite Calm in oPt , Israeli Troops Go on Rampage
International Press Center 2/7/2005
GAZA, Palestine, February 7, 2005 (IPC+WAFA)-Despite of the full calm from the Palestinian party, the Israeli occupation forces restlessly continued its onslaught against the Palestinian people under imposing a strict full siege. Three citizens were wounded differently on Sunday; two were arrested including...
Israel tells U.S. it will look into East J'lem land seizure
Ha'aretz 1/31/2005
Israel has promised the United States that it will reexamine a decision made last summer to confiscate East Jerusalem property owned by Palestinians, who have been cut off from their land by the separation fence. The Americans expressed concern about the expropriation of land, which...
Israel Expropriates Palestinian-owned lands in Jerusalem
International Press Center 1/24/2005
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, January 24, 2005 (IPC+ Agencies)-Israeli occupation authorities have expropriated recently large areas of Palestinian-owned lands in the occupied east Jerusalem, Israeli Daily Haaretz reported on Sunday. The "Absentee Property Law", which Israel used for many decades as a pretext to expropriate Palestinian...
Israel Opens Pandora’s Box of Land Grab in Jerusalem
Palestine Media Center 1/24/2005
b>Expert: More Than Half of Palestinian Property Threatened in Holy City -- The Palestine National Authority (PNA) condemned the Israeli cabinet’s decision to apply the so-called Absentee Property Law of 1950 in occupied east Jerusalem as a violation of the Oslo accords signed with...
'Land grab' fears for Jerusalem
BBC 1/24/2005
Israel has reportedly begun seizing tracts of east Jerusalem land owned by Palestinians in the West Bank under a law not used for decades. The government is enforcing a law on absentee landowners passed in 1950, the Israeli daily Haaretz says. Israeli lawyers acting for...
US Congressmen: Apartheid Wall Robs Palestinian Lands
International Press Center 1/13/2005
GAZA, January 13, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Former United States congressmen, representing a human rights organization, called yesterday for the removal of the Israeli Apartheid Wall, pointing out that this wall was founded to rob Palestinian lands and natural resources.A delegation of former US congressmen from...
Compensations After Dismantling Separation Wall: Experts
Islam Online 1/13/2005
GAZA CITY, January 13 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Palestinian law experts poured cold water on a UN decision to register Palestinians' complaints on damages caused by the Israeli separation wall, pressing, instead, for the implementation of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on tearing down...
20 Civilians Wounded During Anti-Apartheid Wall Demonstration in Hebron
International Press Center 11/22/2004
HEBRON, Palestine, November 21, 2004 (IPC + WAFA) - - About 20 civilians from the village of Beit Ola, northwest of Hebron, were wounded today as Israeli forces attacked a peaceful rally against the construction of the Apartheid Wall on the village's lands. Local sources said the rally...
Video Clip of The Cage
StopTheWall.org 8/9/2004
Documentary Video, Omar Nazzal, August 9th, 2004 -- A short clip taken from the 27 minute video, The Cage, by Omar Nazzal, which shows the economic, social and agricultural impacts of the Apartheid Wall on Palestinian Society. Focusing largely on the Tulkarem and Qaliqilya districts the...
West Bank Land Grab Continues, Beit Hanoon Terrorized
International Press Center 8/1/2004
HEBRON, July31, 2004 (IPC+WAFA)-- Israeli occupation forces stepped up its illegal expropriation of Palestinian owned land today, as more property was devastated in preparation for further building work on the apartheid wall, slicing the West Bank. Israeli troops have submitted warrants to forcibly seize...
The fence will fall
By Ahmed Tibi, Maariv 7/1/2004
MK Ahmed Tibi congratulates the High Court for agreeing that the fence represents draconian measures against the Palestinians. -- For decades, since 1967, the army has assumed that it could always depend upon the High Court of Justice. The court has taken just about every single...
Lost Dreams in Deir Al Ghosoon
International Press Center 6/3/2004
TULKAREM, Palestine, June 3, 2004 (IPC)-- The construction of the Israeli Apartheid Wall through the lands of the Deir Al Ghosoon Village in Tulkarem province continue to leave scars on the daily life and suffering of the villagers there, increasing the psychological and economic burdens...
Update: Scores of the Palestinians Wounded in Al Zawyia including a PA Official
International Middle East Media Center 6/23/2004
Tens of the residents were wounded Tuesday during a peaceful demonstration in Al-Zawyia, west of Salfit, in counter of the continuation of building the Separation Wall, which threatens to isolate and expropriate more than 30,000 Dunum, west of Salfit province. Eyewitnesses reported that troops used...
Women And Girls Lead Blocking of Bulldozers in Az Zawiya
Alternative Information Center/International Womens' Peace Service 6/8/2004
International Womens' Peace Service An eight-year-old girl stood under the blade of a digger on Monday, as women and children stopped the uprooting of olive trees on Az Zawiya land for nearly one hour.Bulldozers began cutting and uprooting trees on Sunday night and by morning...
Israeli Sources: IOF Uses Chemical Weapons Against Palestinian Demonstrators
International Press Center 6/13/2004
GAZA, June 13, 2004 (IPC + Arab48)-- Official and publicsources in the West Banktown of Al-Zawya, which has been witnessing large-scale confrontations between the citizens and the Israeli occupying forces (IOF) over the town's lands, asserted that those who have inhaled the tear gas IOF troops...
Scores of the Palestinians Wounded during a Peaceful Protest in Al Zawyia including a Minister
International Press Center 6/22/2004
Al Zawyia, June 22 2004 (IPC+Agencies)---, In Al Zawyia, west of Salfeet, tens of the residents were wounded today during a peaceful demonstration in counter of the continuation of building the Apartheid Wall, which threaten to isolate and expropriate more than 30,000 Dunum, west...
Biddu: The struggle against the Wall
By Tanya Reinhart, Electronic Intifada 5/6/2004
Biddu is a beautiful Palestinian village, surrounded with vines and fruit orchards, a few miles to the east of the Israeli border of 1967. In the last couple of months, the village, that has lived in peace with its Israeli neighbors even during the present...
Israeli Troops Use a Child and a Peace Activist as Human Shields
International Press Center 4/17/2004
BIDDUE, April 17, 2004 (IPC+Agencies)-- Most gravely, the Israeli occupying soldiers pummeled a 12-year-old Palestinian boy from Biddu, northwest of occupied Jerusalem-that isfacing a wide scale of land expropriation for building the apartheid wall- and afterwards,the soldiers tied him to the front...
Debate Over Israel's Barrier Heats Up
The Guardian 12/29/2003
JERUSALEM (AP) - The army's shooting of an American and an Israeli peace protester has angered Israelis and sparked renewed debate over a controversial West Bank barrier and the army's rules of engagement. Israel says the barrier - made up of concrete walls, razor wire, fences and...
Sharon’s Wall a Threat to All Religious Groups
By Christopher Bollyn, AmericanFreePress.com December 2003
Annexation by appropriation’ ruins world’s holiest cities for everyone -- The Israeli “separation barrier” is the culmination of Ariel Sharon’s long-planned settlement scheme to appropriate vast amounts of Palestinian land and water resources and impoverish the non-Jewish population to the point of expulsion.Bethlehem this Christmas, like...
Mideast Peace Initiatives
Editorial, Arab News 12/18/2003
The newly signed Geneva Accord, which though unofficial, has generated considerable interest. But the possible steps envisaged by both Sharon and his Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are the antithesis of a peace initiative. Their main premise is that peace initiatives are futile, a negotiated...
Relative Humanity: The Essential Obstacle to a Just Peace in Palestine
By Omar Barghouti, Miftah 12/15/2003
Good riddance! The two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is finally dead. But someone has to issue an official death certificate before the rotting corpse is given a proper burial and we can all move on and explore the more just, moral and therefore enduring...
Israel Defiant About Barrier
Palestine Monitor/Los Angeles Times 12/10/2003
The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reacted defiantly Tuesday to a U.N. General Assembly vote asking the International Court of Justice to rule on the legality of a barrier that Israel is building around the West Bank. Meanwhile, domestic criticism of the fence mounted...
Israel’s Apartheid Wall in Tulkarem Ransacks Palestinian Antiquities
Miftah 12/3/2003
The apartheid wall being constructed by Israel along the West Bank brought far reaching risks and calamity on life of the Palestinians, as it had expropriated 150,000 dunums of their lands, and impacted their carved antiquities. Dozens of the archeological sites in the West Bank...
Israel’s unholy wall
By Tom Wallace, Palestine Media Center/Boston Globe 12/3/2003
IN REALITY, the Holy Land doesn't need walls, but bridges," said Pope John Paul II. Kofi Annan has strongly criticized Israel's separation barrier. The UN General Assembly voted to condemn it 144-4. The Security Council would have but for a US veto.President Bush has...
Barbed-wire Screen, Smoke Screen
By B. Michael, Translated by, Arabic Media Internet Network/Yediot Ahronot 10/31/2003
A lot of “separating” can be achieved with 3,000 km (2,000 miles) of barbed-wire: separating livestock from its owners, olives from their harvesters, vines from their pickers, a doctor from his patients, a worker from his place of work, a teacher from his students. Especially...
"Spartheid" in Jerusalem
By Dr. Menachem Klein, Jerusalemites 11/20/2003
Enveloping Jerusalem is an attractive line for Israel since it is built on the Zionist ethos of 'taking our fate into our own hands', undertaking unilateral action and creating facts on the ground in accordance with exclusive Israeli interests. This ethos has an enormous attraction...
Of Walls and Land Theft
By Juliana Fredman, CounterPunch 11/14/2003
They offered the family a blank check to leave their home to the bulldozers. Muneera and Hani refused and now all they can see is concrete. They tell us the story in a lovely living room, insisting on serving us sweet tea despite their own...
Matrix reloaded -- yet again
By Jonathan Cook, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 13 - 19 November 200
Israel may one day create some sort of severely circumscribed state for the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza. The question is what kind of a nation will be left to enjoy its limited fruits. -- Israeli academic Jeff Halper has coined the phrase "the...
Israel Still Destroying Occupied Territories, Second Cmtee Delegates Sayat Conclusion of Debate on Arab Sovereignty
United Nations 11/10/2003
Israel continued to destroy Palestinian territories through deforestation and the expropriation and erosion of agricultural lands, as well as by seizing lands, harvests and livestock in the occupied Syrian Golan, the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) heard this afternoon as it concluded its debate on...
Israel's New War Machine Opens the Abyss
By James Brooks, CounterPunch 11/10/2003
We Didn't Know" Will Be No Excuse -- Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories passed through a profound transformation during the last several months. Through a series of policy changes and military orders, the West Bank “security fence” has gradually revealed itself to be the backbone...
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 plans for building yet another...
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 fill a security need or...
Israel Accelerates Construction of the Wall and Settlements
Editorial, Miftah 10/24/2003
Since Israel began implementing the separation wall, it has embarked on a public relations campaign to convince the international community, especially the Americans, that this in no way is intended to set up de facto permanent borders with significant land grabs, but rather simply provide...
Explusion, Little by Little
By Amira Hass, Palestine Monitor/Ha'aretz 10/22/2003
The fears and suspicions, as usual, came true - and very quickly. Hiding behind security rationales and the seemingly neutral bureaucratic language of military orders is the gateway for expulsion. Not massive expulsion, heaven forbid, not on trucks, and not far. Drop by drop, unseen, not...
Israel vows to go on with fence, despite UN condemnation
Ha'aretz 10/22/2003
Israel vowed Wednesday to press on with building the separation fence in along its border with the West Bank, despite a U.N. resolution condemning the project as a violation of international law and demanding it be halted. Palestinians oppose the barrier - which is comprised of...
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 almost entirely. The orders, which...
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 or later it will force...
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 commander of the West Bank...
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 international outcry against a plan...
People and Politics / Actually, it's called Spartaheid
Ha'aretz 9/16/2003
The "secondary fence" method, which is turning Palestinian communities into corrals, has not skipped the "Jerusalem envelope" plan. -- There have been innumerable stories in recent months about how the separation fence has cut off Palestinian parents from their children, and farmers from their land. In...
Imprisoned in a shrinking world
Sydney Morning Herald 9/6/2003
Palestinians say the new Israeli barrier is no more than a land grab -- Close one eye and there is something darkly comical about the way fate is closing in on Rageh Ayyad. In 1967 the Israeli government seized his home, leaving him, like hundreds of...
Caged
By Chris McGreal, The Guardian 9/3/2003
When finished it will be 370 miles long and 10ft high, encircling almost the entire West Bank population. Israel claims the security fence is needed to protect its citizens from suicide bombers. But for the many thousands of Palestinians cut off from their work, fields...
Israel’s apartheid project in the West Bank
By Ghassan Khatib, Daily Star 8/19/2003
The wall that Israel has been building in the occupied Palestinian territories under the pretext of security the wall that is being called the “apartheid wall” by the Palestinian side has lately attracted a great deal of high-level attention. From a Palestinian point of view...
The Wall in Palestine: Security as Pretense for Dispossession
By Jamal Juma, Electronic Intifada 8/18/2003
Here in Palestine we have been watching with great despair the visits of Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Sharon to Washington. Amidst the rhetoric of negotiations, over 100 bulldozers are working non-stop, every day, to continue construction of the Wall, which highlights...
Fence annexes 50,000 Arabs to capital
Ha'aretz 8/19/2003
Israel has issued land expropriation orders for its "Jerusalem envelope" fence, which will put some 50,000 Palestinians from the West Bank on the Israeli side of the barrier while leaving tens of thousands of Arab residents of the capital cut off from relatives, schools and...
How to suffocate a people
By Lynda Wafi and Saud Abu Ramadan, Middle East Times 8/14/2003
Raed Zeid, a six-year-old Palestinian boy from the village of Toura Al Sharqeya, west of the northern West Bank town of Jenin, used to carry his schoolbag and walk to the adjacent village of Nazlet Zeid, where his elementary school is located. He ignored Israeli...
Wall places the Palestinians in ghettos, says Arafat
Jerusalem Times 8/14/2003
President Yasser Arafat lashed out at the Israeli government for continuing to build the controversial security barrier- part concrete wall and part fence with razor wire- inside the West Bank. The Palestinians say the fence is no security-motivated initiative as Israel claims but an attempt...
Palestinian PM's leadership at stake when he pleads with Bush to help free detainees
The Guardian 2003-07-25
The Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, will urge President George Bush today to rescue the US-led "road map" to peace by pressuring Israel to release thousands of political prisoners and halt the expropriation of Palestinian land to build a security fence...
Abbas to Congress: Israel undermining Bush's vision of peace
Ha'aretz 2003-07-24
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas told congressional leaders Thursday that Israel was undermining President George W. Bush's vision of Mideast peace by continuing to build Jewish settlements on the West Bank and constructing a security fence to separate Israel from Palestinian areas. Abbas arrived in...
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