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<h1 class="article-title">Soldiers Demolish Bab Al-Karama</h1>
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<span class="article-details"><span class="article-detail"><img
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alt="author"> Monday January 21, 2013 09:08</span><span
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src="cid:part2.06030901.01000303@freedomarchives.org" alt="author"> by
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News</span></span><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/64925">http://www.imemc.org/article/64925</a><br>
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Monday at dawn - January 21, Israeli soldiers invaded the Bab Al-Karama
Palestinian village, installed by Palestinian activists on lands Israel
intends to illegally confiscate in Beit Iksa, north west of occupied
Jerusalem, and removed all tents and structures.
<p class="article"> Palestinian activists in Bab Al-Karama (Gate Of
Dignity) stated that the soldiers removed and demolished everything the
activists installed, and started forcing them away from the entire
area. <br>
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Kamal Hababa, head of the Bab Al-Karama village council, stated that a
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and bulldozers, invaded the area and removed the structures.<br>
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The army also continued its siege on the area preventing the residents
from reaching Bab Al-Karama. <br>
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The new Palestinian ‘village’ was installed on Friday on
privately-owned Palestinians lands that belong to the residents of Beit
Iksa; the lands are on the area Israeli dubs as E1 where the Netanyahu
government intends to build thousands of units for Jewish settlers. <br>
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On Sunday, the Israeli forces closed the checkpoint leading to Beit
Iksa and attacked nonviolent protesters with gas bombs and stun
grenades, and gave notice that they would evict the village.<br>
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The Palestinians insist that, similar to Bab Al-Shams village that was
also attacked and removed by the Israeli army and police, last
Wednesday at night, Bab Al-Karama is built on Palestinian lands, and
that the Palestinians have the right to build on their own lands, part
of the future Palestinian state. <br>
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Israel on the other hand is building an expanding illegal Jewish-only
settlements on Palestinian lands in different parts of the occupied
West Bank, and occupied East Jerusalem.<br>
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The site where the Bab Al-Karama was installed overlooks the valley
with the 1948 border where the remains of the village of Lifta are
visible. <br>
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Lifta was one of hundreds of villages depopulated in 1948 when Israel
was established in the historic land of Palestine. Just beyond Lifta,
the remains of the village of Deir Yassin, also depopulated in 1948,
are still visible.<br>
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Before 1948, the villagers of Beit Iksa had over 14000 Dunams of land,
but they now have access to only 2000 Dunams of their lands. Should the
Israel E1 Plan go forward, the villagers will only have around 600
Dunams. (1 Dunam = 0.247 Acres) </p>
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