Israeli Army Arrests 40 Opponents of Controversial Barrier

World | August 5, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
Israeli Army Arrests 40 Opponents of Controversial Barrier An Israeli security guard watches a bulldozer clear ground for the security wall. Israeli troops stormed a house in the West Bank and arrested 40 opponents of the wall, 34 of them foreigners of the International Solidarity Movement. Photo by AFP

Israeli troops stormed a house in the West Bank and arrested 40 opponents of its controversial security barrier, 34 of them foreigners of the International Solidarity Movement. The protestors were occupying the house in Mashah, near the town of Qalqiliya, in a bid to stop the Israelis bulldozing the Palestinian owner's garden to build the fence cutting off the West Bank from Israel. The Palestinians and rights groups charge that the barrier, which consists either of a strong fence or a concrete wall, is an attempt by Israel to annex the West Bank's "bread-basket" and unilaterally determine the borders of a future Palestinian state.

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