New Jerusalem settlement planned
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- Written by BBC News BBC News
- Published: 11 May 2007 11 May 2007
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The plan, which has yet to receive final approval, would involve building about 20,000 homes.
The Palestinian chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said the plan destroyed efforts to re-start the peace process.
He said Israel had to choose between settlements or peace, but could not have both.
The Key to Peace: Dismantling the Matrix of Control
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- Written by Jeff Halper Jeff Halper
- Published: 10 May 2007 10 May 2007
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One indisputable fact that has accompanied the entire "peace process" is that Israel will simply not relinquish control voluntarily over the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It will not relinquish the core of its settlement system, or control of the West Bank aquifers, or sway over the area's economy or it "security arrangements" extending over the entire Palestinian area. . . .
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Access to more than 50 percent of West Bank restricted for Palestinians: World Bank
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- Written by The Associated Press on International Herald Tribune The Associated Press on International Herald Tribune
- Published: 10 May 2007 10 May 2007
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RAMALLAH, West Bank: A new World Bank report says the troubled Palestinian economy cannot recover unless Israel dismantles its web of physical and administrative obstacles to Palestinian movement in the West Bank. Here are some figures from the report.
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Since Israel signed an agreement on improving movement and access for Palestinians in November 2005, restrictions have instead become tighter. Since the agreement, the number of physical obstacles in the West Bank increased by 44 percent, to 547.
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Military Police to probe soldiers' assault on leftist Israeli activists
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- Written by Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, and the Associated Press Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, and the Associated Press
- Published: 10 May 2007 10 May 2007
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The Military Police criminal investigations division is to launch an investigation into an incident in the West Bank on Wednesday in which armed Israel Defense Forces reservist soldiers used violence against left-wing Israelis protesters.
The protesters had dismantled a temporary roadblock in the Hebron Hills, close to the town of Dahariyah, provoking the troops' response.
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Negev desert nomads on the move again to make way for Israel's barrier
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- Written by Rory McCarthy in Azariya Rory McCarthy in Azariya
- Published: 28 February 2007 28 February 2007
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The bulldozers came for Hamid Salim Hassan's house just after dawn. Before the demolition began, the Bedouin family scrambled to gather what they could: a fridge, a pile of carpets, some plastic chairs, a canister of cooking gas and a metal bed frame.
Now, with their house a wreck of smashed concrete and broken plastic pipes, Mr Hassan and his family are living in a canvas tent on a neighbour's land. Their possessions are piled outside, along with boxes of supplies, including washing-up liquid, toothpaste, corned beef, wheat flour and tomato paste, provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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