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| Police hurt in barrier clash north of Jerusalem |
| 2006-05-13 |
| JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Two policemen were injured and 10 people were arrested Saturday in a demonstration protesting Israel's controversial separation barrier, police said. Hundreds demonstrated in the Arab West Bank neighborhood of al-Ram north of Jerusalem. The police officers were injured when demonstrators hurled stones at them. Police called the demonstration attended by both Israelis and Palestinians illegal. The Israeli government began building the barrier in 2002, about two years after renewed violence erupted in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The barrier separates Israel and Palestinian territories in the West Bank. In some areas, the barrier is a fence; in others, it takes the form of a concrete wall. As it travels through al-Ram, it is a towering concrete wall running down the center of a major road. Israel says it is building the barrier to thwart Palestinian terror attacks. The Palestinians say the barrier amounts to an illegal land grab of Palestinian territory because it does not match the line of Israel's border with the West Bank before the 1967 Six-Day War. The barrier route is expected to figure heavily into what will be Israel's future border with the Palestinians along the West Bank. |
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