Reclaiming the land and damaging the foundations of the wall.

Aboud 10th February 2006

150 Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis participated in the protest against the Apartheid Wall, and the publication of cartoons insulting to Islam's prophet Mohammad. Demonstrators described the cartoons  as an attempt to break the good ties between Muslims and Christians in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere.

The Palestinian People Party (Formerly the Communist Party of Palestine) was well represented as part of their commemorations of the 24th anniversary of the reestablishment of the Party.  Bassam Al Salhi, Secretary General of the Palestinian People Party and Fateh member Moheeb Awwad, both newly elected member of the Palestinian legislative council addressed the protesters.

The rally marched through the village, down the main road and out into the village’s agricultural lands, where the Israeli Occupying Forces have begun laying the foundation for the wall’s path. 

For the first time demonstrators succeeded succeeded in reaching an actual construction site for the wall. 

They pushed down hill boulders that had been placed for the foundations of the wall and set fire to sacking that had been placed to hold sand for the foundations. 

When occupation soldiers intervened there were clashes between them and Aboud youth. Non were injured.

Mr Hanna Khoury, spokesperson for the Aboud Popular Committee against the wall stated that after the residents appealed against the route of the wall to the Israeli High Court of Justice, soldiers had informed them that a temporary injunction was issued to shift the route.

Lawyer of the Popular Committee, Mohammad Dahla, said that so far the soldiers did not uproot trees in the area, because the construction is being carried out in empty area, but the planned route indicates that the coming stage will include grabbing and bulldozing farmlands.  

“We will achieve a ruling to bar the uprooting of the trees, and farmlands,” Dahla stated. “The court said that the route will be shifted, we still did not receive any new maps or plans.”