Ivan Karakashian | Reuters
18 May 2009
Israel’s land barrier is slowly destroying the fabric of this Palestinian village of Christians and Muslims in the West Bank, setting a prime example of why the United States wants settlements to stop.
One third of Aboud’s open space has been turned into a buffer zone. Hundreds of olive trees have been uprooted to make way for a dirt road closed off with barbed wire and patrolled by the Israeli army.
The land seized lies beyond Israel’s barrier along the 1948 Green Line that was once the Jewish state’s western border. The bulge encroaches six … Continue reading
