- Israel forged ahead with its security barrier yesterday,
dismissing the United Nations General Assembly's call for the structure
to be torn down.
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- In Abu Dis, a Palestinian suburb of Jerusalem, bulldozers
cleared the way before workers started on a 24ft-high concrete wall to
separate the city from its fringe of Palestinian communities.
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- The wall is part of a 425-mile long barrier which Israel
says is designed to stop suicide bombers entering the country. Palestinians
say it is an attempt to annex chunks of the occupied West Bank.
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- The International Court of Justice earlier this month
ruled that the wall was illegal under international law.
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- On Tuesday night the UN General Assembly passed a non-binding
resolution demanding that Israel dismantle the barrier. The motion was
passed by 150-6, with ten abstentions, after the European Union secured
several changes to the Arab-inspired text.
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- * Palestinian Authority officials said yesterday that
they would investigate the killing of Nabil Amr, a former Palestinian information
minister and a well-known critic of Yasser Arafat.
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- Mr Amr was shot by unknown gunmen in Ramallah on Tuesday
night, following days of violence and protests against corrupt officials
in Gaza and the West Bank.
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