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With the construction of the wall, Israel would effectively annex most of the western aquifer system, which provided 51 per cent of West Bank water resources.

The International Court of Justice has completed its hearings on the legality of the barrier Israel is building in the occupied West Bank.

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Israel must also free Palestinian prisoners, remove all checkpoints between Palestinian villages and town, and redeploy its forces to positions held prior to September 28, 2000, in accordance with phase I of the Road Map.

The wall fence in the West Bank and Ariel Sharon s disengagement from Gaza have practically done away with daily friction between Jews an Arabs.

The Committee is strongly opposed to the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and efforts to complete the construction of the wall on Palestinian land.

The wall impeded freedom of movement in the Palestinian territory, swallowed up large areas of the territory and separated East Jerusalem from the West Bank.

While Norway recognizes Israel's security concerns, we cannot accept the construction of the separation barrier on occupied land in the West Bank.

However, rather than dismantling it and making reparation for the damage already done, the occupying Power was continuing to confiscate West Bank land in order to continue construction of the wall, especially in occupied East Jerusalem.

While the wall and the occupation of the West Bank essentially served the interests of the Israeli settlers, they also inflicted serious human rights violations on Palestinians.

Since the construction of the wall, about 50 groundwater wells and over 200 cisterns had been destroyed or isolated from their owners in the West Bank.

Wall to Wall Wal Mart?

We observe with concern the division of the territory of the West Bank as a result of the construction of the barrier, continued settlement expansion and the increasing isolation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank.

The ongoing construction of the wall inside the West Bank had isolated and impoverished those living in the adjacent areas, especially in the area between the wall and the 1949 truce line.

Israel must, in particular, renounce its policy of developing settlements and halt the construction of the wall on the West Bank.

The barrier, together with more than 700 roadblocks, disrupted the flow of goods and people within the West Bank, as well as to and from Israel.

The wall's encroachment on Palestinian land and interests creates great hardships for the Palestinian people affected by its construction and exacerbates the situation by placing populations, agricultural land and a part of the West Bank aquifer beyond their reach.

The argument against the fence on the West Bank assumes that the settlers are there illegally and therefore are not entitled to the protection of a defensive barrier.

Thirdly, Israel continues its construction of the separation wall, which extends 720 kilometres 90 per cent of which is inside the West Bank, sometimes to a depth of 22 kilometres.

The hopes raised by the announcement of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza were disappointed by its continuing policies concerning the settlement of the West Bank and the construction of the wall.

In point of fact, the Israeli Government recently decided to extend settlements in the West Bank, primarily around Al Quds, and to step up construction of the wall around that city.

If the fence followed the 1967 boundary there would be few objections. But, because it runs partly through the West Bank and protects not only people living in Israel, but also the settlers in the occupied territories, Israel stands accused of an illegal land grab.

However, 108 km of the wall, which would cut 22 km into the West Bank, would incorporate the two large Jewish settlements of Ariel Emmanuel and Ma'ale Adumin.

According to one of the Secretary General's reports to the General Assembly, the wall, if completed, would lead to the annexation of about 1,000 square kilometres of the West Bank.

This week, the occupying Power resumed construction of a section of the Wall by the illegal settlement of Ariel, which is located 12 miles deep into the West Bank.

Another witness added that in the West Bank, more than 1.2 million trees had already been reportedly cut down or uprooted in the area of the wall.

Bringing Down the Wall

He said, I don't see the wall, and I'm telling you the same, Don't see the wall.

The continuing construction of the separation wall, the intensification and expansion of settlement activities in the West Bank and the continued isolation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank remain sources of grave concern for my delegation and give rise to serious misgivings about Israel's real intentions with respect to the final status of the territory.

In flagrant defiance of the United Nations and its resolutions, the Prime Minister of Israel recently declared that his Government intended to continue to build settlements in the West Bank and the Golan, as well as to complete the construction of the separation wall.

Those actions were prohibited under the fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Israel was also continuing its construction of settlements and planning to expand its construction of the separation wall on the West Bank.

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These hopes tended to fade, as it was noted that Israel was still pursuing its settlement policy in the West Bank, continuing construction of the wall around East Jerusalem and to the south in the West Bank, and proceeding with the establishment of a set of separate roads for the use of settlers only.

No one doubts that the situation is worsening as a result of the occupying Power's ongoing construction of the separation wall in the West Bank, which has been condemned by the international community.

Layla was pushed to the wall.

The wall, of course, will never be built.

The construction of the wall should be halted.

However, any serious revival of the peace process cannot be achieved without the complete cessation of all settlement activities, the construction of the wall, and the continued dissection that is transforming the West Bank into isolated cantons and scattered islands, particularly in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the key to peace.

UNRWA estimated that the wall which Israel was constructing on the West Bank would have a negative effect on the lives of 200,000 Palestinians, including some 15,000 refugee families.

Furthermore, the Committee remains profoundly concerned about the intensified expansion of settlement activity in the West Bank, including in East Jerusalem, and the accelerated construction of the illegal wall in the occupied Palestinian territory.

However, the continuation of violence and attacks on civilians, the intensified expansion of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the continued construction of the separation wall in the occupied Palestinian territory, in contravention of international law, remains a matter of deep concern.

Israel was continuing to construct the separation wall. The wall was 720 kilometres long and 90 per cent of it was inside the West Bank at a depth of up to 22 kilometres, dividing Palestinian towns and villages and making the life of their population almost impossible.

Had the apartheid wall , which virtually shut the Saharans into a ghetto and was defended by anti personnel mines, been intended as a defence, Morocco would have constructed it on its own territory and not in Western Sahara.

Israel continued its construction of the barrier in the West Bank, contrary to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice of 9 July 2004 and General Assembly resolutions ES 10 13 and ES 10 15.