Israel opens 'apartheid road' in occupied West Bank
A new segregated road separates Palestinian and Israeli traffic between the villages of Anata and Azzayim.
Anata, occupied West Bank - A newly-opened highway in the occupied
West Bank has been hailed by Israelis but condemned by Palestinians, who are
calling it "Apartheid Road".
It's the first operational section of an eastern ring road around
Jerusalem that could deny Palestinians access to parts of the West Bank and threaten a future Palestinian state.
'They want to take that land'
"Anyone can see the Israelis' plan," said resident Ahmed Rifea. "A few months ago they wanted to take Khan al-Ahmar," Khan al-Ahmar is the Bedouin village that garnered international attention after the
Israeli government issued a demolition order against it. "Now they build this new road? They want to take that land," Rifea said.
Originally encompassing 35,000 square-kilometres of land, Anata has shrunk to a little more than 1,000 square-km because more than 90 percent of it lies in Area C as agreed by the Oslo Accords, putting it under total Israeli civil and security control.
The Rifea family owns hundreds of dunams (tens of hectares) of land in Anata, but almost all of it has been confiscated by Israel for road and illegal Jewish settlement construction.
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