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	General News of Thursday, 23 October 2003
		Mrs Battir said the non-payment of water tariffs by security agencies, schools and health facilities in the communities was posing a financial threat to the sustainability of CWSA especially.
		Mrs Battir told the Ghana News Agency at Wa on Thursday that although the community water project was to assist people to get access to potable water, the non-payment of tariffs could collapse the system, as it was not making profit.
		Mrs Battir said nine towns would receive small town water systems under the World Bank assistance while nine others would also be rehabilitated and expanded to meet the growing population of the towns.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=45328&nav=previous (300 words)

	The Environmental Impacts Assessment of The Israeli Segregation Plan on Battir Village (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Battir and the surrounding villages are well known of their springs and high valuable agriculture land.
		Battir agriculture area and water springs: to the left agriculture land and to the right water springs in Battir valley.
		Battir village is not connected to a sewage network; households of Battir rely on cesspits only.
	www.arij.org.cob-web.org:8888 /pub/EIABattir/index-1.htm (4568 words)

	AEI home page - projects
		The youth Management Team had received tasks in the previous day, so that every body knew his or her responsibility in advance; some were responsible on taking the attendance sheet, others, on reporting, welcoming the participants, while others were responsible on translation and others for the fun activities.
		When we reached Battir, it was already prayer time for Moslems so some went to pray in the mosque nearby, while the rest enjoyed having some refreshments others observed the greenery of the village, the old Roman irrigation system and of course the warm welcome of the people of the village.
		It was about how a girl —Amal-from the Al Arroub Refugee Camp faced the sadness of losing her groom who was martyred on one of the checkpoints and transformed all the anger to become a peace activist.
	www.aeicenter.org /aei/about_aei/projects/fieldtripsbattir.htm (773 words)

	Regional News of Thursday, 16 October 2003
		Blandina B. Battir, Regional Director of CWSA who said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Wa on Thursday said CWSA paid 90 percent of the amount while various District Assemblies and beneficiary Communities settled for the remaining 10 percent.
		She said, the first phase of the project, which would provide a total of 428 boreholes would serve 365 Communities with a total population of about 224,542 people.
		Battir said nine towns would receive small towns water systems under the World Bank Assistance while nine other existing systems would be rehabilitated and expanded to cater for the communities.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/regional/artikel.php?ID=44891&nav=previous (189 words)

	POICA-New updated Wall path in Battir Village - Bethlehem Governorate !!
		Battir village lies adjacent to the Armistice line (Green Line) and is located 6 kilometers west of Bethlehem city.
		Battir citizens have continued cultivating these parcels of land based on 1949 Rhodos agreements signed by the Jordanian and Israeli Governments.
		In the case of Battir, the Wall will not pass along and on the 1949 Armistice line (Green Line), rather 3.3 km of the Segregation Zone will penetrate the northwestern and western parts of Battir village.
	www.poica.org /editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=826 (1064 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| 'First freedom, then the future'
		Battir is a village of 3,000 Palestinians whose ancient stone houses tumble down a gorge that once marked the pre-1967 Green Line.
		To its north stretches the ever-extending arm of Gilo, home to 30,000 Jewish settlers, built on 675 acres of land expropriated from Battir's neighbouring village of Beit Jala and site of some of the fiercest military battles of the Al-Aqsa Intifada.
		In November 1996, he beat to death Hilmi Shousha, a 10-year-old boy from Battir's sister village of Husan, for throwing stones at his car.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/530/re3.htm (992 words)

	Index-Toine
		In order to prevent criticism that she is having a joyful hafle (party) at a time when people mourn their deaths and wounded, she has instructed the teachers and students to keep all the songs, dances, clothes in national style, emphasizing the Palestinian identity and solidarity.
		Battir is a village to the southwest of Bethlehem at the border of the so-called Green Line which separates the West Bank from Israel proper.
		As soon as the British army approached the village, the women shouted at each other “it’s cloudy.” Upon that sign, all the big soup pans were closed and hidden away because as soon as the British would see the large amounts of food being prepared, they would understand it was made for the rebels.
	www.lpj.org /Nonviolence/Toine/Diary27.html (1116 words)

	B'Tselem - Testimony of Samir Ahmad, October 2003
		He asked where we were going and I told him that we were going to take a patient from Battir to the hospital in Bethlehem.
		I told the soldier that I need to get to Battir to take a patient to hospital, but the soldier shouted at me and said that the patient didn't interest him and neither did the work of the ambulance, and that we were to go back to Husan.
		On Sunday, 5 October 2003, I left the offices of the Red Crescent in the center of Bethlehem, together with the medic Hussein Nawawra, to the branch in Husan.
	www.btselem.org /English/Testimonies/20031002_Soldiers_Obtsruct_Work_of_Medical_Team_Bethlehem.asp (1665 words)

	EAPPI Report: The wrong walls tumbled
		In Battir, a famously peaceful village perches on the edge of a wadi above the British-built Tel Aviv to Jerusalem railway, which marks here the ‘Green Line’ or ceasefire line of 1948.
		As we walked amongst the terraces our host, Sameer Oweneh of the Battir Charitable Society, explained how the Wall plans delivered recently by the areas military commander cut off hundreds of acres of olive groves – and irrigated terraces - from the village.
		Last season, some olive pickers who dared to cross via the railway tunnel, freely used by children and sheep, were jailed for one month.
	www2.wcc-coe.org /eappi.nsf/index/rep-dm-06032201.html (1233 words)

	West Bank: Battir Photos, Captioned Pictures, Travel Gallery Images - The Great Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Battir lies perhaps five miles west of Bethlehem as the crow flies, but access is circuitous.
		Battir used to be known to all visitors to the Holy Land, but that was back in the days when people took the train to Jerusalem--and when the train stopped at Battir for passengers and water.
		Battir was then part of a unified Palestine, not just a West Bank village.
	www.greatmirror.com /index.cfm?navid=452&picid=0&picturesize=medium (174 words)

	Jewish Review: Film points to heartbreak underlying long Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Elon's film is outwardly a chronicle of her efforts as an adult to reconnect with Obeidallah, who lives today in the Palestinian village of Battir.
		More importantly, the film is an exploration and something of a meditation on the relationship between her family and Obeidallah and the implications of that relationship in the larger drama of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
		When Elon and her parents are reunited with Obeidallah, his sons and their families, the filmmaker encourages them to address the contradictions that characterized their relationship.
	www.jewishreview.org /Archives/Article.php?Article=2005-07-15-1495 (638 words)

	The East Jerusalem YMCA
		Through the course, the women got to know each other better, strengthening their relations and ability to interact, and planned for a one day trip visit to Battir village, west of Beit Jala, organized by the East Jerusalem YMCA international women group.
		They visited Battir with its natural resources, natural gardens, various different kinds of fruits and green land resources, and because Battir is famous for the many water resources it contains.
		The aim of the trip was from the experience of what the group would learn in the course itself.
	www.ej-ymca.org /site/DisplayNews.cfm?NewsId=113 (211 words)

	SILive.com's Printer-Friendly Page
		Her mother, Beth Elon, is a native New Yorker who worked as a press secretary for Hubert Humphrey and his wife, Muriel, during the 1960 presidential primaries.
		Elon's caregiver, was born in the village of Battir, near Bethlehem, and learned to speak English from British soldiers returning from World War II.
		He worked at the United States embassy and the consulate in Jerusalem, and during the 1967 war, working as a cook in the consul's residence, he was credited with securing the consul's safety.
	www.silive.com /printer/printer.ssf?/base/living/114562630885340.xml&coll=1 (577 words)

	CCHP - Rehabilitation and restoration of old buildings in Bethlehem District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As a precious example of vernacular village architecture in terms of spaces and volumes, the Hosh of Jab’a will be reused as a locale for the Village Council.
		3- Rehabilitation of Madafet Battir: situated 9 kms south-west of Bethlehem, Battir was built on the ruins of an ancient town called Bether and an ancient spring and pool with a complex system of channels are still used, channeling water to the neighbouring fields.
		This project includes the rehabilitation of two units, one serving as a Mother and Child Centre and the other as a clinic for the newly established Charitable Society.
	www.bethlehem2000.org /cchp/working_units/r_f_p01.shtml (308 words)

	UNRWA Update: West Bank Barrier - Profile of Nahalin Village (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For more than two years the cluster of Nahalin, Husan and Battir was totally closed and the only access was on foot via the Husan/ Al-Khadr junction.
		The IDF re-opened the road onto bypass road 375 in November 2003, but controlled movement initially with a mobile checkpoint and after that by setting up a military observation tower to monitor the passage of vehicles.
		Recently, the village council obtained a map of the planned construction of a terminal west of road 60 and a tunnel with a gate under road 60 connecting the villages of Hussam, Battir, Wadi Fukin and Nahalin with Beit Jala and Bethlehem.
	www.palestine-pmc.com /details.asp?cat=3&id=1175 (1278 words)

	Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign: Al-Walaja Villagers Pledge Steadfastness to Lands
		Located to the southwest of Jerusalem, the original village of Al-Walaja was situated between the villagers of Battir and Malha.
		The village was destroyed in the 1948 Occupation (Al-Nakba), and the Aminadav settlement built on its lands, along with a park for the Zionist colonizers.
		The only openings in the Apartheid Wall in the south west will be for the contiguity of the settlements built inside the West Bank, as part of the Zionist goal of a “Greater Israel”.
	www.stopthewall.org /latestnews/897.shtml (810 words)

	MEI: Letter from Wadi Fukin
		Other villages, like Battir, Husan and Nahalin, are similarly affected by their proximity to the Gush Etzion bloc.
		Over the years settlers have prevented villagers from gaining access to their land, as well as pumping waste on to the arable fields from the settlement’s sewage plant.
		A map in February indicated that the village, along with Husan, Battir, and Nahalin, would be in an encircled ghetto, with just one exit to Bethlehem.
	meionline.com /backcover/404.shtml (679 words)

	Joint Advocacy Initiative: Olive Picking 2005 - Day 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Upon arrival to the village, the participants were told that the road to the field of the farmer, Ghassan Olayan, 40s, is blocked by the Israeli railway project.
		Olayan's field is located in the West Valley of Battir near the 'Green Line' – of the 1948 boarders between Israel and the West Bank – on which the railway is built.
		The participants and the school girls had a lovely walk for half an hour on the hills of Battir to get to the farmer's field.
	www.jai-pal.org /content.php?page=134 (715 words)

	Bethlehem Media Net: Press Release
		"Previously, on November 21, 2005, Occupation forces confiscated 85 dunum from Battir, Beit Jala and al-Khader villages to build a tunnel under Road 60, which links the settlements in Jerusalem to those in Hebron district," it added.
		Al-Khader, on the other side of the Wall, will be isolated from lands cultivated with vegetables, grapes and almonds that remain within the boundaries of the West Bethlehem ghetto.
		Not only will Nahallin, Battir, al-Walaje, Hussan and Wadi Fuqin be completely imprisoned, but the Occupation has recently approved the expansion of Betar Illit settlement, which will seize much of the villages' remaining lands.
	www.bethlehemmedia.net /press/press59.htm (247 words)

	Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign: The Wall Map around Bethlehem
		The Wall around Bethlehem is in actuality part of the so—called “Jerusalem envelope” that starts from the settlement of Bet Horon to the northwest of Jerusalem city all the way to Kfar Etzion settlement in the very south of the Bethlehem District.
		Annex the entire western countryside of the Bethlehem District west of the Wall isolating four villages (Battir, Husan, Nahhalin and Wadi Fukin) with their 18,000 inhabitants.
		Walaja and Jaba villages, to the north and south respectively, will be completely isolated from Bethlehem, while their lands will be annexed to the newly expanded Occupation municipal boundaries where already existing settlements will expand, and new ones will be built.
	stopthewall.org /maps/857.shtml (199 words)

	Permanent Representatives to the UN - Jordan
		Born in the Village of Battir near Jerusalem.
		Abu Nimah was member of the Jordanian delegation to the Arab-Israeli Peace Talks held in Washington, D.C. in 1992, 1993 and 1994.
		Abu Nimah graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History at the American University of Beirut in 1959, attended Al-Ummah College in Bethlehem from 1952-1955, the Bethlehem Secondary School from 1948-1951, and the Battir Elementary School from 1942-1948.
	www.un.int /permreps/jordan.htm (268 words)

	Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign: West Bethlehem in Final Stages of Ghettoization
		Previously, on November 21, 2005, Occupation forces confiscated 85 dunum from Battir, Beit Jala and al-Khader villages to build a tunnel under Road 60, which links the settlements in Jerusalem to those in Hebron district.
		Located close to al-Khader, the settlers-only road is an integral part of the Wall path and completes it.
		Not only will Nahallin, Battir, al-Walaje, Husan and Wadi Fuqin be completely imprisoned, but the Occupation has recently approved the expansion of Betar Illit settlement, which will confiscate much of the villages’ remaining lands.
	stopthewall.org /latestnews/1165.shtml (366 words)

	PCN website - Louis Bohte ofm, brieven
		Dit betekent in de locale cultuur, dat zij bescherming van de Bedoeïnenstam genoot en zij met geen vinger aangeraakt is. Na onderhandelingen is zij teruggegaan naar haar familie en heeft vervolgens haar vader haar met een mes gedood.
		Via de checkpoint in Beit Jala, de DCO geheten, wat staat voor districtskantoor van het Israëlische leger, reden wij eerst een heel stuk voorbij Battir, voordat we van de weg af konden gaan en terug naar Battir reden.
		Wij waren namelijk de avond tevoren vrouwen tegengekomen, die we in Battir gesproken hadden en zij nodigden Pur uit.
	www.passievoorvrede.nl /upload/mobohte/bohte_brief_050313.html (1162 words)

	photos
		Battir is located high on the banks of the Wadi Rafaim close to the boundary with Israeli Jerusalem to the north west of Bethlehem.
		Ein Al-Balad supplied the townspeople of Battir with all their requirements until 1972 when the Israeli Mekorot network was linked to the town to provide domestic water.
		There has been a structure built around the spring since Roman times.
	wseru.bethlehem.edu /docs/photos.html (513 words)

	POICA-A Restraining Order to halt Constructions at Al Khader Crossing Point !
		Residents of Bethlehem western rural village councils (Nahalin, Hussan, Battir, Wadi Fukin) along with Al Khader and Beit Jala Municipalities objected the military order and filed petitions to the Israeli Supreme court to stop the construction of the terminal.
		The petition rejects the whole route of the Segregation Wall which is planned to be constructed in Western Bethlehem Governorate, as the Wall encompasses all of Gosh Etzion settlement bloc and threatens the isolation of more than 53200 Dunums of Palestinian lands.
		The Palestinian villages of Al Walajeh, Battir, Husan Nahalin and Wadi Fukin will be entrapped between two Walls; one that runs along bypass road number 60 (or the locally known by the 'Tunnel Road'); while the other runs close to the 1949 Armistice Line (Green line).
	www.poica.org /editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=805 (794 words)

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