Court: State must justify fence route at E. J'lem village

[Scurrilous]

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/372754.html

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"The High Court of Justice on Tuesday ordered the state to respond to complaints filed by residents of an East Jerusalem village and explain why it is building the West Bank separation fence along a route they say will imprison part of the village between the fence and the border of Jerusalem, Israel Radio reported.

In the first temporary injunction the court has issued on a fence-related matter, the justices also instructed the state to consider an alternative route that would prevent some 60 residents of the village of Al-Has and 1,500 dunam of agricultural land from being cut off from the rest of the village.

These residents would not be permitted to enter Israel, and the fence would prevent them from entering the rest of the West Bank.

The judges, headed by Justice Dorit Beinish, said the enclaves created by the fence are a humanitarian problem to which a solution must be found."

[tinnypriv]

1. Okay, I'm not sure about the High Court

But the district court of Tel Aviv issued an injunction like this back in October (relating to Baqah and Jerusalem), so I'm not sure if this is really the "first" case.