Border Police plans to destroy Arab neighborhood in J'lem

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The Border Police is planning to demolish an Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem to protect the separation fence built in the area.

Commander Amitai Levy, the Border Police commander of the area enveloping Jerusalem, has announced that dozens of buildings of the Al-Muntar neighborhood in Jerusalem's Tzur Baher village must be torn down.

This follows from his decision to create a 500-meter-wide security strip on each side of the barrier along its entire length, he said.

The residents of Al-Muntar said this week that at least 74 houses come within 500 meters of the barrier. In the rest of the country, the security buffer along the fence is only 50 to 80 meters wide.

Levy's statement contradicts the instructions of Dan Tirza, a retired colonel in charge of the security fence administration for the Israel Defense Forces. Tirza permitted two architect firms hired by the residents to plan the buildings only dozens of meters away from the fence.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/533722.html

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1. Land theft...

The ultimate incitement...