palestinian outpost in E1 area - 8-12-07

Three Palestinians, five Israelis, and three international (Swedish) activists were forcibly evicted from a Palestinian house and arrested today in the E-1 area. They have now been taken to Ma'ale Adumim police station. Early this morning Palestinians built a house in the controversial E-1 area. Palestinians are routinely denied permits to build on their own land, and homes that have been built are demolished. The Human Rights activists stayed inside for a few hours before a large police and army presence evicted them through use of force.
The E-1, or East-1 area, is between Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem, on lands from nearby Palestinian villages. The Israeli government plans to build a settlement of 3,500 apartments and an industrial park in this area. This will effectively connect the Ma'ale Adumim settlement with Occupied East Jerusalem, dividing the West Bank in two while separating Jerusalem from all of it. In addition land has recently been confiscated to build a road to connect the two Palestinian enclaves that will be created on both sides of the "settlement bloc".
On September 24th, the Israeli army confiscated 1,100 dunums of Palestinian land to provide 'transportational contiguity' by building a Palestinian-only road through the E1 area. The settlement blocs will be annexed to Israel with territorial contiguity, while Palestinians must settle for a collection of tunnels and bridges that will allow them to drive between the separate enclaves of the West Bank. These Apartheid roads will be controlled by Israel for security reasons, and will further divide the future 'viable' Palestinian state on more confiscated lands.
This Palestinian family is not the only one to be forced to leave their homes. The 2,700 strong Jahalin Bedouin community is also being driven out of the land they have lived on as refugees since they were forced to leave the Negev desert after the Nakba. Israel plans to displace the Bedouin onto lands belonging to the adjacent Palestinian villages. In some cases in the past, the Bedouin were forcibly displaced onto private properties belonging to the residents of these communities

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[saserenite]

This fence is separating innocent people from terrorists. You have got to be crazy to be against that. Shame on you.

[great88s]

we do not have power over anything any more God is carrying out time and his history every day

May GOD bless the people and land of Israel this time until the end

[coolerdude44]

wooohoooo i am a jew so i love israel, i just accused 504549589340 saudi vids of being terroristic/anti-jewish when they were just driving around lol but serves them right, they cant just blow everybody up

[sunkmannen]

I'm proud to say that my brother was there, hes the one with the dreads. (The girl with the glases is his girlfriend.)

[korg2329]

Sharmytalogia ze haia hazak!!!

[eileenfleming]

I have been to Bil'in three times since Jan. 2006.

I recognize Yonathan P. and am wondering if i also saw Neta of Ramallah?

Any hope to have the Hebrew translated into English?

I have X-posted your link on WAWA Blog, Dec. 10, 2007. sorry, but i don't know how to post it above.

In Solidarity "We have it in our power to begin the world again"-Tom Paine

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