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Purveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 10:44 AM
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Palestinians Live In Horror Of Losing Their Homes
AL-AQABA, West Bank (AFP) — Salim Hamed Jaber, 85, shook his head angrily as he recounted how an Israeli soldier drove up to his impoverished household in the occupied West Bank to deliver a demolition order.

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According to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), "more than 3,000 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank have pending demolition orders, which can be immediately executed without prior warning".

Most of the orders were issued because there were no construction permits, which Israeli authorities only seldom grant to Palestinians, the UN agency said, adding that in some cases entire communities could be displaced.

"This is occupation, this is injustice," said Jaber.

And he cannot understand why anyone would want to demolish his home -- a four-room brick and corrugated iron shack in the dusty, sun-baked village of Al-Aqaba.

Villagers say Israeli troops have told them they need the area for military training, because the landscape resembles southern Lebanon, where Israel fought a 34-day war against the Shiite Hezbollah militant group in 2006.

MORE: http://afp.google.com:80/article/ALeqM5glwMEUx5szhVfXf_TIzFKknW_3Eg
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subsuelo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-31-08 05:28 AM
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1. Can anyone say "State sanctioned terrorism"
And yes, destroying people's homes is terrorism.
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DramaOnHwy61 Donating Member (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-02-08 05:58 AM
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2. that's just sick. Bastards.
"Israeli troops have told them they need the area for military training, because the landscape resembles southern Lebanon"
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-02-08 06:27 AM
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3. These demolition orders have been pending for quite some time
From September 18, 2007:

When school began this month, the children of al-Akkaba in the northern West Bank did not just have the usual concerns of a new school year.

They had the added grave worry that any day their school may be demolished.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6993142.stm

Based on the information in the story you posted, it looks like the children made it through the school year at the kindergarten.





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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-03-08 12:03 AM
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5. There was a temporary restraining order
issued in 2004

The village, with the help of Rebuilding Alliance, hired an Israeli attorney to petition the Israeli Supreme Court for a lifting of the Demolition Orders and for initiating a land-use plan that will answer the population's needs. The petition was filed in January 2004, and the court issued a Temporary Restraining Order staying further demolitions pending the outcome of the case.<8> On April 17, 2008, after 4 years of negotiations, the Supreme Court - sitting as a High Court of Justice (HCJ) - finally heard the case. None of the village residents was allowed to attend the hearing in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem. In oral argument, Adv. Tusya-Cohen stated that it was the state's duty to set up a team of experts, to draw up an up-to-date Master Plan, according to which building permits could have been issued - not to stick to a completely obsolete plan, decades out of date and completely unfitting the conditions on the ground, making his clients into "law-breakers" against their will.<1>

more on the court decision and reactions at link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqabah
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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-02-08 09:41 PM
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4. State sanctioned terrorism
State sanctioned terrorism

And yes, destroying people's homes is terrorism "
...........it would terrorize me
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