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Article: ISRAEL PONDERS CHANGES IN SECURITY BARRIER
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- United Press International
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- February 19, 2004
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United Press International
02-19-2004
Israel ponders changes in security barrier
ISRAELI SECURITY BARRIER, West Bank, Feb 19, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Several dozen Palestinian children, school bags on their backs, gathered near a massive yellow gate loaded with electronic devices outside their West Bank village of Hirbet Jbara.
A military patrol was waiting on the gate's other side. A lieutenant colonel told journalists touring Israel's security barrier in the West Bank that the soldiers were waiting for them to pass. Then soldiers would open the gate and let the children, who attend school on the eastern side of the fence, return to their homes on its western side.
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