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Netanyahu orders building a security fence in Jordan Valley

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Moti Milrod/MaanImages) Al Ray Agencies | Nov 3, 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – The head of the Israeli government Benyamin Netanyahu ordered the construction of a security fence in the Jordan Valley, due to the impasse in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority over the military control of area. According to a […]

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PHOTOS | Israel locks-down neighbourhood after Palestinians make hole in Apartheid Wall

MEMO | Thursday, 24 October 2013 15:26 Eyewitnesses described a ‘massive’ number of Israeli security forces tracking down dozens of Palestinian youth responsible for making the hole IMAGES The Israeli occupation authorities have imposed a complete closure of Kabsa neighbourhood in Abu-Dis on the outskirts of the holy city of Jerusalem in response to activists […]

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Palestine: Dividing Land, Erasing Identity in Qalandiya

Visitors walk past a giant photograph showing the “Apartheid Wall” at the West Bank at the “Wall on Wall” exhibition by German photographer Kai Wiedenhoefer, displayed on a remaining section of the Berlin wall 26 July 2013. (Photo: AFP – John Macdougall) Al Akhbar English | Malik Samara | Wednesday, July 31, 2013 Qalandiya, a […]

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Israel prevents tractors entering to lands behind the Apartheid Wall

[ PIC 19/06/2013 – 09:16 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Palestinian farmers called for pressuring the Israeli authorities to cancel its decision to prevent tractors entering to agricultural lands behind the Apartheid Wall. The Israeli recent decision aims to destroy the Palestinian agricultural lands located behind the apartheid wall, the farmer Walid Qabaha said. He […]

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Palestinian Christians urge pope (@pontifex) to oppose wall

Maan News Agency | April 29, 2013 JERUSALEM (AFP) — Palestinian Christians near Bethlehem on Monday urged Pope Francis to speak up against an Israeli decision to build its controversial separation barrier on a route they say would cut off their community. “We cry to your Holiness with a feeling of despair and urgency in […]

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Khudari: Continuation of building the wall intensifies isolation of West Bank

[ PIC 27/04/2013 – 02:48 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– MP Jamal Khudari, head of the Popular Committee against the Siege, condemned the decision of the Israeli judiciary to continue construction of the apartheid wall near Bethlehem. Khudari stressed in a press statement on Saturday that the Israeli resolution contradicts the resolution of the International Court […]

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Israeli occupation forces close Jeet barrier in Nablus, storms Fawar camp

All Israeli Attacks – Timeline | All Israeli cease Fire Violations – Timeline [ PIC 18/03/2013 – 08:13 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) closed Jeet barrier that links between the cities of Nablus and Qalqilya in the northern West Bank, after an armed attack against an Israeli settler in that […]

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Catholic bishops slam Israel separation barrier

A group of eight Roman Catholic bishops from Europe and North America have promised to press their governments to take position against Israel’s separation barrier in the Israel-occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank. PressTV | Jan 11, 2012 “In the Cremisan Valley we heard about legal struggles to protect local people’s lands and religious […]

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Israel to build an electrified fence on occupied Golan Heights

MEMO | Jan 7, 2012 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that his country is to build an electrified fence on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The aim, he claims, is to prevent any violence in Syria spilling over into the occupied territory. Israel practically, though not legally, annexed the Golan Heights in 1981, […]

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PHOTOS | Qalqiliya flooding exacerbated by separation wall

Maan News Agency | Jan 6, 2012 QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Rainfall over the last 24 hours has flooded large tracts of land in Qalqiliya, with water unable to drain off in areas near Israel’s separation wall, locals said. Agricultural land and residential properties have been ruined by the excess water build-up, farmer Ahmad Salmi said, […]

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VIDEO | Israel-Syria wall: Safeguard or ‘apartheid’?

Published on Jan 4, 2013 The walls around Israel are growing as the country’s army builds a new physical barrier, this time on its border with Syria. The wall will reportedly begin in the southern part of the occupied Golan Heights, extending north from there. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/cpo2mh RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday […]

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#PHOTOS | Dec 20 2012 | Israel extends Apartheid Wall and builds new checkpoint in Shufa’at RC

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article Dec 20, 2012 | Photos by Louise Pollack/ WAFA THE COMPARISION THE WORLD CELEBRATED THE FALL OF #BERLIN WALL AND SO WILL PALESTINE WHEN ISRAEL’S WALL OF SHAME WILL GO DOWN   Constructing […]

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Renewed barrier construction threatens Palestinian heritage

Source: IRIN | Aug 9, 2012 Photo: Andreas Hackl/IRIN The village of Battir is perched over a terrace farming system that is unique in the OPT RAMALLAH, 9 August 2012 (IRIN) – Palestinian communities in the West Bank have expressed alarm at widely reported news that Israel will resume the construction of its “separation wall” […]

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Israel releases latest plan for Wall around Bethlehem-area village of al Walaja

Wednesday, 01 August 2012 09:03 Thayer Hastings for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) The Palestinian village of al Walaja sits on a beautiful hillside. Along with its endowed landscape, al Walaja is targeted by the Israeli authorities for impeding the dream of an ethnically monogamous ‘greater Jerusalem’. Since 1971 the Gilo and Har Gilo colonies adjacent […]

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#REPORT | The Humanitarian Impact of the Barrier | July 2012

New Report by UN OCHA | July 2012 QuickFacts The Barrier consists of concrete walls, fences, ditches, razor wire, groomed sand paths, an electronic monitoring system, patrol roads, and a buffer zone. The Barrier’s total length (constructed and projected) is approximately 708 km, more than twice the length of the 1949 Armistice (‘Green’) Line, which […]

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