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02/22/2006:

"“Final Borders” and “Security Zones” Outline Palestinian Bantustan “State”"

Escalating Israeli declarations around “final borders” are alarming, particularly in the face of ongoing Occupation pursuits to devour more Palestinian land, control the West Bank, and contain the Palestinian Struggle. Recent announcements, launched during the Herzliya policy conference that ended the day before the Palestinian Legislative Council elections, were not a surprise in the face of the near completion of the Apartheid Wall, confirming Israeli plans to permanently control approximately half the West Bank by imprisoning the majority of Palestinians in walled ghettos. In continuing its current policy and measures, the Occupation seeks to deepen and make official, preferably through negotiations, its de facto annexation of lands between the Wall and the Green Line as well as the Jordan Valley, thus demarcating a Palestinian “state” more accurately referred to as bantustans, ghettos, or reservations.
zmag.org


Update on Balata refugee Camp
February 21st, 2006 | Posted in Press Releases, Nablus Region
Sixteen year old Kamal Khalili was shot in his chest with live ammunition at 11:00 this morning in Balata Camp while throwing a stone at Israeli soldiers. He is now brain dead. According to Dr. Ghassan Hamdan head of the Nablus UPMRC nine other youths were injured today, at least four of them with live ammunition. Dr. Hamdan Says that this brings the total of injured people to 64.

This is third Day of the military operation in Balata Camp, The camp has been under continues curfew and people are suffering from lack of food medicine and milk formula for babies.

The military has occupied over sixty homes. Families in these homes are completely isolated. When a medical team tried to see 64 year old Im Imad Mashi who has high blood pressure and has recently undergone a heart operation they were denied acsess. “the soilders told us she can die” said Clara a volunteer from Germany .