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The Israeli Peace Now movement has stated that while they would support a barrier that follows the 1949 Armistice lines, the "current route of the fence is intended to destroy all chances of a future peace settlement with the Palestinians and to annex as much land as possible from the West Bank" and that the barrier would "only increase the ...
In February 2004, Israel's High Court of Justice [2] began hearing petitions from two Israeli human rights organizations, the Hamoked Centre for the Defense of the Individual and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, against the building of the barrier, referring to the distress it will cause to Palestinians in the area. The Israeli High ...
Palestinians celebrated amid skepticism that the withdrawal would take place. [7] Israeli polls on support for the plan during the time showed support for the plan in the 50–60% range and opposition in the 30–40% range. [8] The Israeli military met heavy resistance and riots from settlers while pulling out. Two far-right Israelis self ...
Three days a week, Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank village of Qaffin line up at a yellow gate and show military permits to soldiers in order to tend their crops on the other side of ...
Israeli forces demolished a cluster of Palestinian homes near a military barrier on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, in the face of protests and international criticism. Israel said the 10 ...
In 2002, the Ariel Sharon Government began work on the Israeli West Bank barrier at the Seam Area. Israel has since maintained that the barrier is vital to keep Palestinian attackers out of Israeli cities. [39] [40] The barrier has been described by Daniel Schueftan as constituting, "the physical part of the strategy," of unilateral separation ...
As a Palestinian student was asleep in his tent at a hospital in Gaza, an Israeli strike brought an inferno that killed five people including him and his mother.
The barrier has been a controversial subject and a cause of heightened tensions in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Israel argued that the barrier was necessary to keep out West Bank militants and avert more suicide attacks against its citizens. [2] Israel began construction of the barrier during the Second Intifada in September 2000, along ...