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| | Bethlehem Media Net: Feature Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Abu Usama fears that when the Wall reaches Wadi Fukien and cuts it off, the village, as in 1948, again will be forcefully evacuated, the people resettled somewhere unknown and their community left for dead—or for exploitation by the Israelis. |
 | | Hence, leaving 274,000 Palestinians in cut-off enclaves, like Wadi Fukien, and block 400,000 others who will be behind the Wall from reaching their fields, jobs, schools, hospitals, churches, mosques and other services in the so-called seam area between the Wall and Israel. |
 | | The scene this day in Wadi Fukien is deceptively idyllic as Abu Usama and his wife serve coffee and sweets to guests on their sun-splashed porch overlooking verdant, spring-fed plots of cabbages, radishes, olives, cauliflower, almonds, plums, grapes and other produce famous for its exceptional quality. |
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