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4 Years on, Israeli Wall "Steals" Land
JAYYUS, West Bank — Perched on a hilltop in the northern West Bank, the town of Jayyus is surrounded on three sides by the barrier Israel is building around the occupied territory.
Farmers are allowed to get to their lands only after getting "visitors' permits" to be let to cross through designated gates at certain hours of the day.
"The wall has transformed our life of happiness into desperation," Jayyus mayor Mohammed Taher Jaber told Reuters Tuesday, July 8.
Israel is building a 700km-long barrier that will eventually snake some 900 kilometers (540 miles) along the occupied West Bank and leave even larger swathes of its territory on the Israeli side.
In Jayyus, the barrier stands right at the town, six kilometers (3.75 miles) from the "Green Line," the armistice line drawn up after the 1948 Middle East war and now considered the West Bank's boundary.
The wall cuts off villagers from 860 hectares (2,125 acres) of their cultivated land, including 50,000 fruit and olive trees, 70 greenhouses and six groundwater wells.
The International Court of Justice has issued in 2004 a landmark ruling branding the wall as illegal and the UN General Assembly has asked Israel to tear it down and compensate the Palestinians affected.
But Israel is defiantly pressing ahead with the construction under the pretext of protecting Jewish settlements, also considered illegal under UN resolutions.
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"The wall has transformed our life of happiness into desperation," Jayyus mayor Mohammed Taher Jaber told Reuters Tuesday, July 8.
Israel is building a 700km-long barrier that will eventually snake some 900 kilometers (540 miles) along the occupied West Bank and leave even larger swathes of its territory on the Israeli side.
In Jayyus, the barrier stands right at the town, six kilometers (3.75 miles) from the "Green Line," the armistice line drawn up after the 1948 Middle East war and now considered the West Bank's boundary.
The wall cuts off villagers from 860 hectares (2,125 acres) of their cultivated land, including 50,000 fruit and olive trees, 70 greenhouses and six groundwater wells.
The International Court of Justice has issued in 2004 a landmark ruling branding the wall as illegal and the UN General Assembly has asked Israel to tear it down and compensate the Palestinians affected.
But Israel is defiantly pressing ahead with the construction under the pretext of protecting Jewish settlements, also considered illegal under UN resolutions.
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