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- 2007-09-04
BILIN, West Bank AFP — Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the state to re-route a section of its West Bank barrier at a village that has become a potent symbol of Palestinian opposition to the construction. The court ruled that the route of the separation barrier in the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, barrier, fence, Israel
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- 2005-11-13
GAZA CITY AFP — Two Palestinians were killed and another wounded by gunfire from Israeli soldiers in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip and West Bank overnight. The body of Bilal al-Shahr, 19, was found in the southern Gaza Strip near the security fence that separates the territory from...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, fence, SECURITY
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- 2004-09-01
JERUSALEM AFP ? Israel will speed up construction of its West Bank separation barrier and target the leadership of Hamas both in the Palestinian territories and abroad after a double suicide attack in the southern city of Beersheva, officials said. "Now we will expedite and speed up the building...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, barrier, fence, Israel, leader
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- 2004-07-11
JERUSALEM AFP ? Israel defied a world court ruling against its West Bank barrier by ordering building work to continue as the Palestinians decided to hold off pushing for a UN resolution against the structure until after the US presidential elections. The order to continue building the 700-kilometre (430-mile)...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, barrier, fence, Israel, security, verdict
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- 2004-06-30
JERUSALEM AFP ? Israel's high court ordered the army to alter some sections of the route of the West Bank barrier in order to protect the rights of tens of thousands of Palestinians living north of Jerusalem. A judgement issued in response to a petition filed by residents and...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, barrier, fence, petition, SECURITY
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- 2004-06-30
JERUSALEM AFP ? Israel is to alter part of the route of its West Bank barrier after the supreme court ruled that its current path violates the rights of tens of thousands of Palestinians living near Jerusalem. A judgement issued in response to a petition filed by residents and...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, barrier, fence, Israel, security
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- 2004-02-24
JERUSALEM AFP ? Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to finish his "security fence" regardless of the verdict of the International Court of Justice, as Israel began work on a new section of its controversial West Bank barrier. "What is in motion at The Hague is an attempt to...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, barrier, fence, Israel, kilometer
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- 2004-02-17
BERLIN AFP ? Palestinian premier Ahmed Qorei took his campaign against Israel's controversial security barrier to Germany, which has urged the Jewish state to make substantial changes to its path. Qorei said he had told Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in their first official meeting that the West Bank fence threatened...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, barrier, fence, Germany, Government, Israel, summit
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- 2004-02-09
JERUSALEM AFP ? The Israeli supreme court was to hear two petitions brought by human rights groups against the West Bank separation barrier, after a top security official indicated that its route could be altered. The hearing in Jerusalem comes two weeks before the International Court of Justice begins...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, barrier, fence, petition
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- 2003-11-22
JENIN, West Bank AFP ? Israeli troops killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy and a Hamas militant in two separate incidents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, medical and security sources said. During an incursion by around 10 Israeli armoured vehicles and a bulldozer in the northern West Bank...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, fence, security