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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 25. december 2003 / Time Line December 25, 2003
Version 3.524. December 2003, 26. December 2003
12/25/2003
Army shoots with live bullets at Israeli peace activists
In this moment, friday afternoon {seventh candle of hanuka} dozens
of activists are tearing apart and breaking down the gate of the
apartheid wall which is also known as the "separation fence", to
enable a free passage for the people of mas'ha to their lands.
The activists, equiped with tools, are breaking the gate that has
remained closed since the wall was built two monthes ago.
The farmers, whose land is on the other side of the fence were told
that they would be able to cross through the gate to work their
lands. That promise turned out to be a methodical, crude and cruel
lie. All throughout the suffocating wall the gates are remaining
blocked and the Palestinian residents remain with no access to
their only source of income.
The army is present - at the Mas'ha village gates which are located
next to Elkana settlement - and yet, its not clear how will the
confrontation between the army and the activists will end.
The activists are calling for a joined active resistance of
Israelis and Palestinians toward the ghettoizing policy that the
Israeli government is issuing.
The action is being held as a part of The Alternative Protest Camp
Against The Apartheid Wall that started a week ago in Deir
Balut.
The camp is hosting Israelis and Palestinians, and located on the
path of the Apartheid Wall, on the land of the village's elementary
school. (The building of the school was stopped due to the land
being confiscated for the building of the wall.)
We invite the media that follows Ariel Sharon's promises, for the
so called evacuation of he settlements, to come and see for them
selfs the land confiscating and settlement expansion operation that
is operating this days.
Deir Balut protest camp and other protest actions that take place
and that will take place in the future will set a live and kicking
alternative to the occupying, stealing and confiscating actions
that the Sharon government and the Israeli army are responsible
for, writes Gush Shalom.
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