The Citizen reports: Israeli wall will affect only 8% of West Bank.
JERUSALEM - Israel's rerouted barrier will cut through 8% of the West Bank, less than half of what was originally planned, after a court ruling to minimise hardships to Palestinians, security sources said yesterday. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved a revised route for the barrier, condemned by Palestinians and by the United Nation's highest court, but which Israel says it needs to keep suicide bombers from reaching its cities.
The planned 6OOkm-long barrier was rerouted after Israel's Supreme Court ordered adjustments last June. The barrier had initially been planned to snake deep into the West Bank and loop around numerous Jewish settlements. The new route takes in fewer settlements and will follow more closely the "green line" which delineates the frontier on the eve of the 1967 Middle East war, the sources said.
Sharon has suggested he would ease other restrictions. In an interview with Newsweek at the weekend he pledged balloting could be held "with as little interference as possible", and that Israeli troops would stay away from Palestinian towns. -Reuters.
Hmmm...how long before the terror supporting fascists at the Media Review Network update their map of the route?
The crocodile-tear shedding antagonists who oppose the barrier should demand an end to Palestinian terrorism. It is this inhumane terror that causes social hardship to the Palestinians and not Israel's moral duty to protect their citizens.
Comments