The security wall & continuing land thefts

saleh on January 31st, 2005

A secret Israeli cabinet decision was used to invoke 55-year-old law against Arabs separated from farms and orchards by the vast “security barrier”. The cabinet secretly decided to seize the land in July 2004 using a law passed in 1950 allowing the state to confiscate property abandoned by Arabs who fled to neighboring countries during…

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News from Jayyous

heather on January 17th, 2005

The Palestinian village of Jayyous, near Qalqilya, sits on some of the best farmland in the West Bank. The monstrosity alternately referred to as; The Wall, The Fence, The Security Barrier, The Separation Fence passes right through Jayyous in the form of a fence with electronic sensors. Not the inhabited parts though. The Fence separates…

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