[Peace-discuss] #BabalKarama/"Gate of Dignity" village built to stop land confiscation

[Robert Naiman]

So *that's* their game! Opening "doors" all over Palestine!

https://twitter.com/search?q=babalkarama

from our friend Mazin:

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*Gate of Dignity built on lands of Beit Iksa north of Jerusalem*
*Army now in the village*

Friday 18 January 2013.  The Palestinian village of Beit Iksa overlooking
Jerusalem just built a new village they called Bab Al-Karama (Gate of
Dignity) on their land behind the apartheid wall that Israel has built on
their land and call on Palestinians and Internationals to join them in
their popular struggle to hold on to their lands.  The wall Israel is
building on the village land would leave 96% of the village land
inaccessible and behind the segregation wall (see maps on link below from
ARIJ).

Over the past 24 hours, the villagers built a mosque and set up 5 tens for
dwelling on their land behind the wall. The head of the Beit Iksa village
council Mr. Kamal Hababa stated that idea of building this village
extension is to protect their legally owned lands and to be the second such
village built to protect from growing efforts at transforming Arab
Jerusalem .  Already the threatened village land behind the wall is 7411
dunums which amounts to half the total threatened lands of the eight
Palestinian villages northwest of Jerusalem and 96% of the village land of
Beit Iksa.  Colonial Jewish only settlements built on Palestinian lands
beyond the Green line in this area include  Ramot, Neve Shmuel, Har Shmuel,
and Givat Ze’ev.

The army is now in the village (Friday evening)


Additional source:
Israeli Military Orders to extend the confiscation of 1280 dunums for
Completing the construction of the Segregation Wall Northwest of Jerusalem
http://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=4247
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Mazin Qumsiyeh
Palestinian Center For Rapprochement Between People
http://qumsiyeh.org

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
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naiman at justforeignpolicy.org