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Jerusalem: Ban Meets Popular Committees Reps

Ban Ki Moon Meets Popular Committees Reps During Tour of the Wall

Ban met representatives of the Popular Committees in the West bank and received a letter from them during a tour of the Wall held by Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad North of Jerusalem.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited representatives of West Bank popular committees to join a tour of the Wall he held with UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon. Members of popular committees from Bil'in, Nabi Saleh, South Mount Hebron and the Jordan Valley met Ban and handed him a letter at an observation point North of the Jewish-only Givat Zeev settlement and adjacent to the segregated Road 443 and the Ofer military prison, where many of the popular struggle prisoners are held.
The letter asserted the popular committees commitment to civic, unarmed protest, and pleaded Ban to stand by Palestinian grassroots mobilizations against the Occupation. Ban was also asked to pressure Israel to end the repression of protesters and their organizers and act in their defense as Human Rights Defenders.

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