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nAn AFP journalist said the protesters, who were joined by a few foreign activists, gathered in the Christian town of Beit Jala to protest building a stretch of the barrier, which started Monday after years of legal battles.
Three Roman Catholic priests tried to pray among olive trees that bulldozers and mechanical diggers were seeking to uproot. Police stopped the priests from approaching.
One demonstrator was arrested as he tried to plant an olive sapling in front of the excavators.
Police wrestled with protesters who chanted, “Israel is a terrorist state. It doesn’t scare us.”
Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled in April that the work must stop and told the government to consider alternative routes.
But, in a new decision on July 6, the court said work could go ahead, ruling that the previous ban referred only to an area of a few hundred meters alongside the monastery and the convent.
The people of Beit Jala were surprised Monday when Israeli bulldozers started uprooting olive trees east of the convent and monastery.
They are protesting against the confiscation of their land and the fragmentation of their lives and also fear that the path of the wall may herald expansion of the nearby Israeli settlement of Har Gilo and the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, much of which lies over the Green Line.
Palestinian Christians, police clash over barrier construction
There have not been suicide attacks for years, Israel is just grabbing more land under false pretense, and uprooting trees, their destruction never ends.
Its time the Palestinians get a Military, or Israel will just keep stealing everything the Palestinians have. It must be hell to live in Israel, no matter what you are, if I were an Israel living in Israel I'd move as I could not be a part of the Israel community who treats others like dirt.
Three Roman Catholic priests tried to pray among olive trees that bulldozers and mechanical diggers were seeking to uproot. Police stopped the priests from approaching.
One demonstrator was arrested as he tried to plant an olive sapling in front of the excavators.
Police wrestled with protesters who chanted, “Israel is a terrorist state. It doesn’t scare us.”
Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled in April that the work must stop and told the government to consider alternative routes.
But, in a new decision on July 6, the court said work could go ahead, ruling that the previous ban referred only to an area of a few hundred meters alongside the monastery and the convent.
The people of Beit Jala were surprised Monday when Israeli bulldozers started uprooting olive trees east of the convent and monastery.
They are protesting against the confiscation of their land and the fragmentation of their lives and also fear that the path of the wall may herald expansion of the nearby Israeli settlement of Har Gilo and the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, much of which lies over the Green Line.
Palestinian Christians, police clash over barrier construction
There have not been suicide attacks for years, Israel is just grabbing more land under false pretense, and uprooting trees, their destruction never ends.
Its time the Palestinians get a Military, or Israel will just keep stealing everything the Palestinians have. It must be hell to live in Israel, no matter what you are, if I were an Israel living in Israel I'd move as I could not be a part of the Israel community who treats others like dirt.