WEST BANK: ISRAEL FINALISES PLANS FOR POLICE STATION BETWEEN JERUSALEM AND WEST BANK SETTLEMENT, CLASHES, LATEST.

Record ID: 400470

  • Title: WEST BANK: ISRAEL FINALISES PLANS FOR POLICE STATION BETWEEN JERUSALEM AND WEST BANK SETTLEMENT, CLASHES, LATEST.
  • Date: 25th August 2005
  • Summary: (W3) NEAR MAALE ADUMIM SETTLEMENT, WEST BANK (AUGUST 25, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. LV/GV: SKYLINE OF AREA 'E1', WHERE ISRAEL IS PLANNING TO BUILD THE POLICE STATION (5 SHOTS) 0.28 2. MV/ZOOM/CU: AMOS GIL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF 'IR AMIM' ADVOCACY GROUP, SHOWING MAP OF AREA; CLOSE OF MAP 0.39 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF 'IR AMIM'
  • Embargoed: 9th September 2005 13:00
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  • Location: NEAR MAALE ADUMIM SETTLEMENT, RAMALLAH AND RAMADIN VILLAGE, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA9JLU009OGGXTZV4FFHV31GQ7V
  • Story Text: Israel finalises plans for a police station between Jerusalem and the largest Jewish West Bank settlement, while protesters clash with guards.


    Israel is finalising plans to build a police station between
    Jerusalem and the largest Jewish West Bank settlement in a move Palestinians
    say could block chances for peace even as Israel leaves the occupied Gaza
    Strip.

    The construction would be the first on a strategic tract of West Bank
    land linking Jerusalem to the Maale Adumim settlement, where Israel has said
    it hopes to build 3,500 new settler homes.

    Israel says it needs the police station to meet its security needs, and
    has no political motives.

    Palestinians fear that Israeli building in the area would cut off East
    Jerusalem from the West Bank and deny them a viable state.

    A spokesman for the Israeli civil administration, Adam Avidan, said the
    plan would receive the final go-ahead in a "matter of days", and
    construction could begin in two months.

    An Israeli left-wing advocacy group said the move faces international
    objection.

    "This is a very big entrance into the West Bank and by doing so
    Israel is going to divide the West Bank into two cantons the south canton and
    the north canton of the West Bank. This is precisely the intention of the
    Israeli government," Amos Gil, executive director of the 'Ir Amim'
    advocacy group said on Thursday (August 25).

    In Ramallah, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei said Israel's
    decision was 'a crime'.

    "The Israeli plans are dangerous, connecting Maale Adumim with
    annexing 100 km until the Dead Sea and the Jordan River, cutting the West
    Bank. It is a criminal operation. We cannot be silent on this," he
    said.

    Meanwhile in the West Bank village of Ramadin, near Hebron, Palestinian
    protesters clashed with Israeli guards who were securing a construction site
    for part of Israel's disputed barrier.

    The protesters climbed onto a bulldozer carrying a Palestinian flag.

    They later scuffled with the guards, who fired in the air to chase them away.

    At least one protester was injured.


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