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Article: Israel Begins Fencing Off West Bank
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- June 14, 2002
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UMM EL-FAHM, Israel (AP) _ An elderly Palestinian struggled up a steep
path, bowing under a load of burlap bags filled with oranges as he
crossed the unmarked line between the West Bank and Israel.
Soon the line will no longer be invisible _ and 70-year-old Mustafa
Akel, who lives in the West Bank, will no longer be able to sell his
produce in Israel.
Israel is fencing in part of the West Bank to keep out Palestinian
suicide bombers and gunmen who have killed more than 520 Israeli during
20 months of fighting.
Yet the 75-mile barrier, which is to run largely along the so-called
Green Line _ Israel's frontier before the capture of the West Bank
in the ...