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BETHLEHEM, May 26, 2006 (WAFA)- Palestinian Grassroots
Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign said that Israeli occupation is in
its final stages of West Bethlehem of ghettoization.
In West Bethlehem, between al-Khader and the villages to be
isolated in a ghetto on the west side of the Wall, the Occupation
has begun building a tunnel under the settler-only road. This
construction and the associated land devastation will finalize
the isolation of the villages in an unbearable ghetto, Grassroots
said.
"Previously, on November 21, 2005, Occupation forces confiscated
85 dunum from Battir, Beit Jala and al-Khader villages to build a
tunnel under Road 60, which links the settlements in Jerusalem to
those in Hebron district," it added. "Located close to al-Khader,
the settlers-only road is an integral part of the Wall path and
completes it."
Once the tunnel is completed, all other passages can be closed
and people channeled, controlled and humiliated under the
Jewish-only bypass. 18,000 people in the villages of West
Bethlehem will soon be completely isolated.
Al-Khader, on the other side of the Wall, will be isolated from
lands cultivated with vegetables, grapes and almonds that remain
within the boundaries of the West Bethlehem ghetto. Not only will
Nahallin, Battir, al-Walaje, Hussan and Wadi Fuqin be completely
imprisoned, but the Occupation has recently approved the
expansion of Betar Illit settlement, which will seize much of the
villages' remaining lands. The latest plans will expropriate 400
dunum from the Palestinian villages for the sake of Jewish
settlers, Grassroots concluded
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