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<h1 class="article-title">Israeli Authorities Change Route Of Wall To
Fully Annex Jerusalem For Israel</h1>
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class="icon" src="cid:part1.03010404.07000803@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> Monday January 21, 2013 08:45</span><span
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src="cid:part2.01040208.09080809@freedomarchives.org" alt="author"> by
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies</span></span><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/64924">http://www.imemc.org/article/64924</a><br>
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The Israeli Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that they will
re-route a section of the Wall east of Jerusalem in order to close off
an existing gap and fully annex the city of Jerusalem into Israel. The
new route means the complete encirclement of the Palestinian village of
Al-Zaim, with the Wall to the West and a security fence to the east.
<p class="article">Other Palestinian towns are also completely isolated
and encircled into ghettoes, including the town of Sheikh Sa'ed and the
city of Qalqilya. Israeli authorities isolated these towns in order to
create Palestinian-free zones and routes throughout the West Bank to
allow Israeli settlers to travel unencumbered without either having to
stop at checkpoints or to drive on the same roads as Palestinians. But
in order to do that, Israeli forces have had to maintain over 600
checkpoints throughout the West Bank, and to force Palestinians off
their own roads and onto dirt roads or trails.<br>
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The new route of the Wall will put the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim on
the Palestinian side of the Wall, along with dozens of other Israeli
settlements constructed in violation of international law all over the
West Bank. But Israeli officials have assured the residents of these
settlements that they will construct other Walls and fences to allow
them to access Jerusalem without having to go through Palestinian areas.<br>
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These additional fences and barriers will, like the Annexation Wall
itself, be constructed on land seized from Palestinian owners by
Israeli authorities who claim that they have the right to take the land
'for security reasons'. All Israeli settlements on Palestinian land are
considered illegal under international law and the Fourth Geneva
Convention, which forbids an occupying military power from settling its
civilian population on land occupied by military force.<br>
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The announcement is seen as a response to the Palestinian encampment
Bab Al Shams, which was established on the land in question, known to
Israeli officials as 'E1', last weekend, then demolished by Israeli
forces. The Palestinian non-violent activists who established the
encampment entered the area through the village of Al-Zaim.<br>
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has openly declared his
intention to build a settlement on the 'E1' land, and completely
enclose the eastern edge of Jerusalem, thus effectively annexing the
city of Jerusalem to the state of Israel. This renders any peace
agreement with the Palestinian Authority impossible, since one of the
Palestinian Authority's base demands is sharing the city of Jerusalem.
The base demands, which Palestinians have asked Israel to recognize
time and again to no avail, are: the recognition of a Palestinian state
with east Jerusalem as its capital, the right of return of Palestinian
refugees and the release of the thousands of Palestinian political
prisoners being held in Israeli prison camps. </p>
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