Israel Marks New Path of Apartheid Wall

Israeli forces Saturday marked Palestinian land in al-Walaja, a village northwest of Bethlehem, to draw a new path of the Apartheid Wall, said Palestinian official. Deputy Head of Walaja village council, Adel al-Atrash, said that the Israeli forced marked the land to raze the land and to uproot olive trees to complete the construction of a section of the wall. He added that the six-kilometer Wall will take over 500 dunums (1 dunum = 1000 square meters) and isolate another 1958 dunums, which has an ancient olive tree called 'Zytonet al-Badawi' (Bedouin Olive Tree), which is estimated to be 1500 years old. The Israeli measure coincides with the seventh anniversary of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion that found the construction by Israel of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and its associated régime are contrary to international law in 2004