EU's Solana shocked at Israeli settlement growth

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"EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana urged Israel to freeze West Bank settlements and stop constructing the security fence. He hoped "the realities on the ground" brought about by Jewish settlement building would not "prevent a two-state solution from happening."

Solana said he was struck during a tour Saturday of West Bank Arab towns on Jerusalem's eastern slopes by the growth of settlements and the barrier cutting into land that Palestinians want for a state.

"I had the opportunity to make a tour along the eastern part of Jerusalem and go to Abu Dis and its surroundings. You get really very shocked every time you go and you see the situation worse, the wall is more extended and settlements are more extended," Solana told reporters in Amman."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/816060.html


250,000 Palestinians fenced in, says report

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3355396,00.html

Separation fence closes off 21 Palestinian enclaves, some completely cut off

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"Some 250,000 Palestinians have been closed off from the rest of the West Bank by the separation fence, according to a report released by "Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights" human rights organization.

The report said there were 21 such enclaves and that 8,000 Palestinians lived in "seam enclaves" stuck between the Green Line and the separation fence."

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"This population is living behind fences, under a regime of permits and bans, in an area cut off from the rest of the West Bank's residents, including friends and first-degree relatives," the report said.

In some areas, the villages are fenced in from three or four angles, cutting them off from urban centers, sources of livelihood and service centers, severely harming daily life to the point of disintegration of the Palestinian society in the area."

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1. Solana should push Taba/Geneva which solves his Jerusalem's eastern slopes

concern the only the way that is fair and therefore the only way it will be solved.

He should condemn the settlements that are deep into the West Bank, if he wants to be helpful.