Holy Land: Israeli court halts building of Separation Wall in Cremisan

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News just in! The Palestinian News Network report: Israeli High Court delivered its final decision on the Cremisan valley case this morning, Thursday the 2nd of April 2015, in favor of the petition against building the apartheid separation wall in Cremisan, after a legal battle that has started in 2006. The residents of Beit Jala whose privately owned lands were to be confiscated by building the wall appealed the Israeli Court in 2006.

The Society of St Yves later joined the appeal representing the Salesian Nuns Convent. The ruling which was delivered by a committee consisting of the former Chief Justice of the Israeli High Court and two other judges, accepted the petition and requested the state to consider other alternative that are less harmful to the local population and the Monasteries in the Cremisan Valley.

The Court confirmed that the planned route as suggested by the Israeli Ministry of Defense is not the only alternative which could ensure security and cause the least harm possible as requested by Israeli administrative law. However, the Court wasn't convinced that the alternative put forward by the petitioners in building the wall closer to the Green Line is any better than the Army's planned route or that it will ensure security.

The alternative presented by the petitioners was put forward by the Security and Peace Commission, an Israeli organization consisting of former Israeli Army officers and generals.

Read the full report here: http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/human-rights/9460-9-years-later-israeli-high-court-accepts-cremisan-petition-halts-building-apartheid-wall-in-cremisan-valley