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Israel Defies UN To Continue
Work On 'Security Barrier'

By Anton La Guardia
Diplomatic Editor
telegraph.co.uk
7-21-4
 
Israel forged ahead with its security barrier yesterday, dismissing the United Nations General Assembly's call for the structure to be torn down.
 
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.
 
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.
 
The International Court of Justice earlier this month ruled that the wall was illegal under international law.
 
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.
 
* 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.
 
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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