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THE BATTALION
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Israel approves security barrier
cutting deep into West Bank
By Steve Weizman
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ing Jewish settlements, con
demned by Palestinians as it major
land grab.
To appease the United States
— which opposes extending the
barrier deep into the West Bank
— the new sections will for now
be disconnected from each other
and from existing barrier sec
tions built closer to Israel’s pre-
1967 border with the West
Bank. The final route will be
decided in the coming months.
The barrier was conceived,
under public pressure, as a
. means of keeping Palestinian
attackers out of Israel, where
' hundreds have been killed in the
recent years' suicide bombings.
But the project has been compli
cated by efforts to incorporate
some of the 220,000 West Bank
settlers on the “Israeli” side.
1 To date, Israel has completed
1 about 90 miles of fences, walls
and trenches built fairly close to
' the border before the 1967 war
but dipping slightly into occu
pied territory in some areas to
cdnclude Jewish settlements.
The government has Strug-
1,” gled with the question of settle
ments deeper inside the West
’.Bank, especially Ariel, a com
munity of 18,000 residents some
, 15 miles inside. The settlers
Israel barrier
extension approved
Israel’s cabinet approved an
extension of a security barrier
deep into the West Bank. The
fence would include the
settlements of Ariel, Kedumim,
Karnei Shomron and Emmanuel.
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wanted the fence to incorporate
them, but the idea angered the
United States and Palestinians.
A senior government official
said the Cabinet decided in princi
ple to approve completing the
NEWS IN BRIEF
project — essentially cutting off
the entire West Bank — and to
begin construction of several sec
tions totaling some 100 miles,
with the exact route of the rest of
the barrier to be decided later.
In line with the secrecy that
has characterized the project,
no maps were officially
released Wednesday.
But from officials’ state
ments and media reports, it
appeared the barrier would
stretch all the way around the
West Bank to the Dead Sea in
the south, sticking close to the
pre-1967 border in some areas
and cutting into the West Bank
to encircle Jewish settlements
in several locations.
Four fence sections in the
area — as sketched by a senior
Israeli official on a map carried
by an Associated Press reporter
— would start with horseshoe
shaped barriers.
The government official said
the plan calls for the sections to be
eventually linked to each other
and to the main barrier. According
to the rough sketch, that would
take a bite some 20 miles deep
into the West Bank, surrounding
an area containing tens of thou
sands of Palestinians.
The United States made its
opposition to such a plan clear,
with President George W. Bush
calling the barrier “a problem”
and some officials saying it
could be interpreted as an effort
to pre-empt negotiations and
unilaterally define the border of
a future Palestinian state.
China makes it easier
;>for couples to say 'I do'
BEIJING (AP) — On Wednesday, China elimi
nated amuch-resented requirement for couples to
obtain their bosses’ approval before tying the knot,
thousands of couples to wed in what, for
some, was also a celebration of the retreat of out
side interference in their private lives.
Couples said “I do” Wednesday at mass cere
monies in city squares, at tree planting cere
monies and even at a Beijing drive-in theater.
The new marriage rules are among social
reforms that increasingly are freeing private
lives from unpopular government controls.
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