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Protest in Beit Sira continues today

Protest in Beit Sira continues today

Residents of Beit Sira together with International and Israeli activists to continue to prevent destruction for the Annexation Wall. Thursday February 23nd beginning at 8:30

Yesterday, Wed the villagers succeeded in stopping the construction by refusing to leave a protest tent on the planned route of the wall which cuts through the villages main road. The Route of the wall in Beit Sira is designed to annex the Makabim settlement and more of Beit Sira's land to Israel.

Ismael Mahmoud, a member of the popular committee against the wall, told ISM that the Israeli military previously uprooted more than 1500 of the village olive trees to build a barrier that will isolate more than 800 dunnms of land from the village

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