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Article: Israel begins fencing off West Bank; permanent border or ad hoc security barrier?
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- AP Worldstream
- Article date:
- June 15, 2002
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Dateline: UMM EL-FAHM, Israel
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 Israelis
during 20 months of fighting.
Yet the 120-kilometer (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 ...