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	Israel's Wall in the West Bank
		Israel maintains that the Wall is a temporary structure to physically separate the West Bank from Israel and thus to prevent suicide attacks on Israeli citizens.
		The wall surrounding the Bethlehem district is a 15-kilometer shackle that segregates 15,000 dunums of agricultural land, mainly olive trees.
		Close to 90% of the route of the fence/wall is on Palestinian land inside the West Bank, encircling Palestinian towns and villages and cutting off communities and families from each other, separating farmers from their land and Palestinians from their places of work and education and health care facilities and other essential services.
	www.vtjp.org /background/Separation_Wall_Report.htm (1380 words)

	Israeli West Bank barrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Israeli West Bank barrier is a physical barrier being constructed by Israel consisting of a network of fences with vehicle-barrier trenches surrounded by an on average 60 meters wide exclusion area (90%) and up to 8 meters high concrete walls (10%).
		On November 13, 2005 U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said that she supports the separation barrier Israel is building along the edges of the West Bank, and that the onus is on the Palestinian Authority to fight terrorism.
		The clear purpose of the wall in the Jerusalem area is to reduce the number of Palestinians in the city by transferring them to the West Bank.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier (6602 words)

	The Wall : Palestinian Israeli Conflict : AFSC
		The Wall, in most cases, is being built inside the West Bank, cutting in from the Green Line as far as ten miles at some points.
		If the Wall is completed, an estimated 320,000 Palestinians - 16 percent of the population of the West Bank - will be isolated between Wall and Green Line, and 200,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem will be entirely cut off from the rest of the West Bank (3).
		However, it is clear that the construction of the Wall - through home demolition, land confiscation, the uprooting of crops, the isolation of communities, and seperation from vital resources - undermines the prospect of a viable Palestinian state, and precludes the possibility of a two-state solution.
	www.afsc.org /israel-palestine/learn/wall.htm (1618 words)

	TA: West Bank Limits Withdraw with Wall
		In this case of Israel, the rabbit is the West Bank and Jerusalem, the OTHER parts of Palestinian Occupied Territories, the part where disengagement is yet to take place.
		The exact opposite of disengagement is happening in the West Bank as 8,700 Israeli settlers were being removed from Gaza.
		The revised plan will have the Wall built to encircle the Ariel settlement and several other settlements known as the "Ariel Finger." The Ariel settlement of some 20,000 settlers is 17 km (10.5 miles) inside the West Bank.
	www.thinkandask.com /2005/0820westbank.html (616 words)

	Israel shortens West Bank wall: World: News: News24
		Jerusalem - Israel is to shorten the route of its West Bank separation barrier by about 80km, military sources said on Wednesday, as world court hearings on the legality of the controversial project drew to a close.
		Another 20km stretch, planned to run between the villages of Al-Mutilla and Taysir in the northeastern corner of the West Bank, is also to be scrapped.
		Israel says its purpose is to prevent infiltrations by Palestinian militants, but the Palestinians view it as a blatant landgrab and an attempt to pre-empt the border of their promised future state.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1489644,00.html (483 words)

	JURIST - D'Amato: The West Bank Wall
		The ICJ faces a similar political thicket in its consideration of the legal consequences of the construction of the West Bank wall.
		But it does not apply to Israeli presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip because Palestine is a mandated territory in which both Arabs and Jews have rights until the Mandate is terminated.
		Thus, a portion of the wall that divides an Arab town, or separates an Arab farmer’s house from his own farm, is extremely costly from an equitable point of view.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /forum/damato2.php (2728 words)

	Palestine Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On balance, Dolphin believes that “wall” is the word that best conveys the self-evident purpose of the project: To redraw Israel’s official 1949 border, the internationally recognized Green Line, and create a fresh border deeper within the West Bank, in the process annexing major settlements, territory and water resources to Israel.
		Noam Chomsky agrees and says such a wall, heavily mined and patrolled by the army on both sides, could be as forbidding as the authorities chose — every bit as forbidding indeed as the one under construction.
		The impact of the wall on Palestinian communities has been crippling, isolating them from land on which they have depended for their livelihood, trapping them in a series of disconnected ghettoes and subjecting them to a grueling regime of gates and permits.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /nueva_web/articles/features/israel_wall_damning_facts.htm (1370 words)

	FT.com / In depth - Palestinian farmers fear advance of West Bank wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They have watched the effects of the wall in the northern West Bank and fear further land confiscations, shrinking markets and the erosion of their sphere of existence.
		Fellow farmers in Jayyous, in the region known as the “garden” of the northern West Bank, made a living selling their fruits and vegetables before the wall was built there in 2004.
		The wall separates the farmers of Jayyous from two-thirds of their land and six water wells, which are now on the Israeli side of the barrier.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/b81fa702-4a5c-11db-8738-0000779e2340.html (850 words)

	Worldandnation: Security wall to cut deep into West Bank
		Palestinians are strongly opposed to the wall, saying Israel is using it to create a de facto border that infringes on West Bank land they claim for a future state.
		Israel says it is seeking to replicate that success with the West Bank wall and has already built 90 miles of it around the northern part of that territory.
		Opponents of the wall accuse Sharon of using it to grab West Bank land and isolate the Palestinians.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/10/25/Worldandnation/Security_wall_to_cut_.shtml (546 words)

	Court orders changes to West Bank wall \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		However, Palestinians regard the structure, which dips into the West Bank, as a means of annexing occupied territory.
		Mohammed Dahla, a lawyer acting for the opponents of the barrier, said the stretch of wall would disrupt the lives of 45,000 people, living in ten villages, cutting many of them off from their farmland, olive and citrus groves, schools and jobs.
		The wall dips deeply into the West Bank in some areas and has resulted in farmland being destroyed, land confiscated and Palestinian villages isolated.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1250608,00.html (578 words)

	Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
		The gruelling path to school of the students in Beit Ur December 9th, 2006-- Twelve year-old Hamaam Ismael sits down leaning against a massive tree that died after it was uprooted by an Israeli bulldozer to prepare the land for the footprint of the Apartheid Wall.
		Yet, while exactly 30 years ago the UN General Assembly called for comprehensive sanctions against apartheid in South Africa, Palestinians are reminded on a daily basis that the Zionist Occupation can still count on the blindness of the world to its atrocities and crimes.
		Around 200 protesters took part in the demonstration, marching to their land isolated by the Wall carrying the Palestinian flag, placards and banners for national unity.
	www.stopthewall.org (470 words)

	West Bank wall contrary to international law: ICJ - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The International Court of Justice ruled on Friday that Israel’s West Bank wall is “contrary to international law,” must be dismantled, and compensation must be paid to the Palestinian owners of land confiscated for the project.
		After deciding it was competent to issue a judgment on an application lodged by the United Nations General Assembly, the court ruled that the Israel’s construction of the wall violated international humanitarian law by disrupting the Palestinian freedoms of movement and employment and the right to education and health care.
		The wall, along the route chosen gravely infringes a number of rights of Palestinians residing in the territory occupied by Israel, and the infringements resulting from that route cannot be justified by military exigencies or by the requirements of national security or public order.”
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/july102004/f1.asp (619 words)

	Israel pushes on with West Bank wall - Turkish Daily News May 01, 2006
		Israel says the 670 km (400 mile) wall, started in 2002, is a security measure needed to stop suicide bombers infiltrating into its cities from the West Bank.
		Sunday's decision means the wall will be akin to two thin "fingers" reaching into the West Bank near the Palestinian city of Nablus to enclose settlements, rather than taking in a larger chunk of land that would have included several Arab villages.
		The United Nations says building the wall on West Bank land violates Security Council resolutions and has said that any construction should follow the de facto border that existed between Israel and the Palestinians before the 1967 war.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=42231 (562 words)

	West Bank wall leads to UN lobbying - The Boston Globe
		West Bank wall leads to UN lobbying - The Boston Globe
		JERUSALEM -- Israelis and Palestinians both sought support yesterday for their positions in a possible confrontation at the United Nations over the security barrier under construction in the West Bank.
		It also said it planned to continue building the 425-mile barrier of concrete walls, razor-wire fences, trenches, and watchtowers.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/07/11/west_bank_wall_leads_to_un_lobbying (507 words)

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	West Bank wall divides UN: World: News: News24
		The vote was 90 in favour, eight opposed with 74 abstentions, reflecting uneasiness in many nations on referring the issue to the world court, based in The Hague, Netherlands.
		The resolution asks the court to urgently issue an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of the barrier.
		In October, the General Assembly voted overwhelming for a resolution calling for the dismantling of the barrier, a 150km network of fences, walls, razor wire and trenches.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1456844,00.html (512 words)

	Palestinian Centre for Human Rights West Bank 'Annexation' Wall
		As part of their plan designed to cement control over the territory of the West Bank the Israeli government has been constructing a Wall (alternatively known as a fence or barrier) inside the territory of the West Bank.
		The Wall is designed to encircle illegal Israeli settlements which are peppered across the West Bank territory.
		On 9 July 2004 the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in response to a request by the UN General Assembly, declared that the “construction of a wall inside the territory of the West Bank is illegal” and that the Wall, and its associated regime, must be dismantled.
	www.pchrgaza.ps /files/campaigns/english/wall/wall.htm (798 words)

	Israel attacks West Bank anti-Wall protest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Over 600 unarmed villagers and supporters were taking part in a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall, which is being built on farmland annexed from the village, when they were attacked by Occupation Forces supervising the destruction of the village’s land.
		They marched to the west of Bil’in, where land containing hundreds of olive and almond trees is being razed for the construction of the Apartheid Wall.
		While the International Court of Justice decision for the Apartheid Wall to be dismantled remains ignored by the international community, the grassroots resistance made it clear that they will continue in their efforts to implement the ICJ decision despite the Occupation violence and attacks.
	www.labournet.net /world/0504/wall4.html (691 words)

	JURIST - D'Amato: The West Bank Wall
		It argues that the term “wall” is prejudicial since it connotes a kind of imprisonment of the Palestinian people.
		Perhaps the Secretary-General’s term for the wall in a short statement filed with the Court-“the Barrier”-should have been used by the General Assembly in framing its question.
		Israel ought to participate in the merits of the case and rise to object every time the words “wall” or “occupied” are uttered during the course of oral argument.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /forum/damato1.php (1823 words)

	Waging Peace: West Bank Wall: Security or Settlement?
		If Israel declares the path of the wall as part of its state border, approximately 70,000 Jerusalem residents will be on the other side of the wall and lose their Jerusalem residency, he warned, along with all the benefits, including insurance and health, that go with it.
		Instead the wall is on Palestinian territory: 80 percent of it traverses the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
		The wall separates Palestinian farmers from their land and has caused a dramatic decrease in agricultural output and an increase in unemployment.
	www.wrmea.com /archives/November_2006/0611068c.html (685 words)

	ParaPundit: Israel To Shorten West Bank Barrier Wall
		Since this move puts more Palestinians clearly on the West Bank side of the wall and reduces the extent to which the wall impinges on Palestinian lives it is a move in the right direction.
		The section of the wall on the outskirts of Jerusalem will be 8 meters or 25 feet in height.
		Having Gaza and the West Bank as two separated pieces of the same larger governmental entity seems like an unnatural state of affairs rather like East and West Pakistan before the civil war that broke Bangladesh off into a separate country.
	www.parapundit.com /archives/001928.html (1121 words)

	Banksy at the West Bank Barrier index \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		On Banksy's website, readers are reminded that Israel's 425-mile-long West Bank barrier, separating Israel from the Palestinian territories, is considered illegal by the United Nations.
		Indicating why he undertook the trip from London, where he made his name as a 'guerilla' artist, Banksy's website says the West Bank barrier is "the ultimate activity holiday destination for graffiti writers".
		During his visit to the West Bank, Banksy created nine images along the barrier, most of them provocative without being directly polemical.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /gallery/0,8542,1543331,00.html (285 words)

	Israel's "separation barrier" in the occupied West Bank: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law ...
		In that regard, Human Rights Watch considers the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem to be under a continuing regime of belligerent occupation, to which the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 is fully applicable.
		The barrier is being constructed over some of the West Bank's most fertile well-fed areas, affecting local access to water and with serious implications for longer term water use.
		The separation barrier constitutes a serious further encroachment on the land and resources of the occupied West Bank, causing extensive harm to the Palestinian inhabitants and threatening to impose permanent changes to the detriment of the local population.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2004/02/20/isrlpa7581.htm (2965 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Israel to re-route West Bank wall
		The new route envisions two fingers of fence construction reaching deep into the northern West Bank to encompass the Emmanuel-Kedumim settlement bloc and the town of Ariel.
		It reduces the amount of land to be confiscated by Israel for the wallâs construction in the area, and means that several Palestinian villages that were cut off from the rest of the West Bank under the previous plan will now be on the Palestinian side.
		The Palestinian Authority adamantly opposes the construction of the wall network, and accuses Israel of confiscating large tracts of West Bank land in order to secure control over settlement blocs and pre-empt territorial concessions that might otherwise be subject to future final-status negotiations.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=12076 (558 words)

	MIDEAST: West Bank Wall Goes Before Court
		Palestinians say it is a wall designed to place a permanent border around land that belongs to them.
		John Dugard, a South African law professor, said the wall amounted to "an unlawful act of annexation" and should be condemned by the international community.
		Similar condemnation of the wall came from Amnesty International, which called for construction to be halted immediately.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=22499 (953 words)

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