News, March 2008
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Threatened by Israeli occupation snipers, villagers in Al-Khadr protest construction of Israeli Apartheid Land-Grab Wall
Date: 22 / 03 / 2008 Time: 10:41
Bethlehem – Ma'an –
About seventy residents of the West Bank village of Al-Khadr, near
Bethlehem, staged their weekly nonviolent demonstration on Friday
against the construction of Israel's separation wall, which organizers
say will result in the de facto confiscation of more than 90% of the
town's land.
Men from the village attended the Friday Muslim prayer service on the
road leading to the construction site of the wall. Heavily armed Israeli
soldiers and border police sealed the road with barbed wire, preventing
the demonstrators from approaching the site and forcing civilian traffic
to turn back.
Several Israeli snipers were positioned on the adjacent hillside,
training their guns directly on the demonstrators. On Wednesday, the
Israeli military leadership issued an order allowing Israeli forces to
shoot live ammunition at demonstrators who approach the Israeli wall, a
move that organizer Samer Jaber feared would discourage many
Palestinians from protesting.
The Popular Committee against the Wall and Colonization in Al-Khadr, who
organized the demonstration, estimates that the planned route of the
wall will annex more than 5,000 acres of the village's land, devastating
this predominantly agricultural community.
While Israeli officials claim the wall is for Israel's security, the
eight-meter high concrete barrier snakes through the West Bank,
isolating Palestinians from one another. The International Court of
Justice ruled the wall illegal in 2004.
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