NONVIOLENT DEMOSTRATION AGAINST THE WALL IN PALESTINIAN VILLAGE ABOUD
Three demonstrators detained and beaten up by the army, witnessed by an Italian volunteer. Tear gas shoot on children, an Israeli activist detained, some people wounded by tear gas and sound bombs.

Aboud, Ramallah Area – This morning about 400 persons, Christians and Muslims from Aboud, Israelis peace activists (among them some refusniks) and some internationals including volunteers of Operation Dove – Association Community Pope John XXIII – that live in Aboud since one year, had formed a nonviolent march attempting to arrive to the Wall building site, close to the Palestinian village.

Otherwise the Separation Wall has already been completed on the Green Line (the border between the State of Israel and the West Bank 1967 Occupied Territories) 6 kilometers west from Aboud, making already impossible to pass from this area to the Israeli territories, now the Israeli Ministry of Defense is building this Additional Fence close to the village with the probable goal to annex to Israel Bet Arye and Ofarim nearby settlements, established in the eighties on Aboud’s land and declared illegal by an UN Security Council resolution.

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18th November 2005

Israel – Occupied Palestinian Territories of West Bank

NONVIOLENT DEMONSTRATION AGAINST the WALL in ABOUD CHRISTIAN VILLAGE
Tear gas shot at head height, one man was burnt on the face.
No stones were thrown.
Muslims and christians demonstrators prayed on the land with Mufti Tamimi and Abuna Hantalla of the Greek Orthodox Church.

Aboud, Ramallah Area – This morning almost 300 people, christians and muslims from Aboud, with internationals and pacifist israeli jews, walked in peaceful demonstration from the Municipality of the village to the land of the village where the Separation Wall is under construction.
Otherwise the Separation Wall is already built on the Green Line (limit between Israel and West Bank occupied since 1967) 6 kilometers away from the village of Aboud, so that it is already impossible to go from the village to Israel. The israeli government is building another Wall close to the village, around the two settlements of Bert Arye and Ofarim.

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16th november 2005

PRESS RELEASE

In construction the “Wall� near the christian village of Aboud.
Nonviolent demostration Fryday 18th november.

The 7th november Israelis bulldozers started to build a Fence 70 meters large, close Aboud village. The Fence is part of the main project of the “Separation Wall�, otherwise in Aboud the Fence will surround the two settlements of Bet Arye and Ofarim. The State of Israel is already protected in this area from the Main Fence buildt on the Green Line (limit between Israel and West Bank), 6 kilometers west from Aboud. Otherwise Aboud villagers have never taken violent actions toward the settlements, and in the past some villagers worked inside the settlements, this Fence is a “Special Security Arragement Area�, around the settlements of Bet Arye and Ofarim. According to the present project, around the 30% of all the families in Aboud will lose land and according to OCHA-United Nation map, around 650 acres (300 hectares) of Aboud land will be taken from the Fence. Around 50 acres (25 hectares, many of them with olive trees) will be destroyed in the land expropriated to build the route of this Fence.
Even a big underground water reserve will be taken with the land, and with the Fence built, an area 100 meters large will be forbidden all along the Fence-Barrier.
The same Fence will take land from the near village of Al-Lubban and Rantis; both village have already lost land for the construction of the Main Fence on the Green Line. The Aboud’s villagers, christians and muslims together, are going to march in nonviolent dimostration and to pray in the land Fryday 18th november, at 10.00 a.m.
The community of Aboud, and the christians in it – part of the christian community in the Holy Land – will be deeply affect from this Fence.
The italian volunteers of Operation Dove – Nonviolent Peace Corp, in the village since more one year to share the life of the people, are going to the nonviolent demostration in Fryday 18th november and ask to all the people of goodwill to support the nonviolent choose of Aboud doing everything in them power to push on the governements, the churches and the Israelis Institutions to stop the building of the Fence near Aboud.
A fax petition for Aboud is online in the british website: www.leics-holyland.gothere.uk.com
and another appeal is in www.operazionecolomba.org
Operation Dove – Nonviolent Peace Corp
Catholic Association “Community Pope John XXIII�