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Israeli court backs wall
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published June 19, 2006
The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday rejected two efforts to change the route of the West Bank separation barrier in and around east Jerusalem. In both cases, Palestinian residents argued that the barrier would be built on private land and cut them off from their "center of life" in Jerusalem. One plaintiff argued that part of the barrier would be built on a cemetery still used by one of the villages, according to court documents. The court ruled for the government, which argued that the security needs of the barrier outweighed humanitarian concerns. The government argued that residents could still enter the city through passages located near their neighborhoods.
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