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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Israeli court rules against segregation on one WB road

Ma'an
The Supreme Court of Israel ruled against a military order prohibiting Palestinians from traveling on a West Bank road in the city of Hebron in a Thursday ruling, Jurist magazine reported.

...On Thursday, the court held that impeding the rights of several thousand Palestinians barred from the road was not justified by the benefits it gave to less than 200 Israelis who live near it.

ACRI laywer Limor Yehuda was not hopeful, however, that the case would set a precedent.

"Its important to analyze this ruling in its broader context, namely the institutionalization of segregation between Israelis and Palestinians in occupied territory. Israel has prohibited Palestinians from travelling on other roads in the West Bank and employs segregation there in other domains such as the justice system," he said. Full story
at 10/25/2009 08:46:00 PM