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Article: Israel Plans to Move Security Barrier Farther into West Bank.
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- Israel Faxx
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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By Jim Teeple (VOA-Jerusalem) & IsraelNationalNews.com
Israel's government says it is planning to move the West Bank security barrier three miles to eastward, farther into the West Bank to enclose two Jewish settlements. Palestinian officials have condemned the proposal.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert approved the relocation of the route of the security/border fence that moves the barrier to the east, protecting the towns of Nili and Na'aleh
, located near Upper Modi'in, where about 1,500 Jewish settlers live. If the proposal is carried out it could enclose about 20,000 Palestinians between the security barrier and Israel's 1967 border with the ...