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In sign of calm, Israel removes Gilo barrier
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Israeli army cranes have begun to remove a concrete barrier that shielded a Jewish neighborhood bordering the West Bank — a sign that calm is taking hold in the Palestinian territory.
An Israeli army crane loads a section of dismantled concrete wall in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem. photo/ap/sebastian scheiner
The Israeli military said it is no longer needed because of a reduced security threat and improved coordination between Israeli and West Bank security force.
Gilo is a neighborhood of about 40,000, and it sits on land Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed to Jerusalem.— ap
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08/29/2010 at 11:06 PM
My recollection from 2000 is that the snipers were shooting at Gilo apartment houses from among other locations, Saint Nicholas church in Beit Jala. The information then was that they were members of the Al-Aksa Brigades which were and are associated with the PA.
What exactly “improved coordination with West Bank security forces” means when it was those very security forces that were doing the shooting is unclear.
I assume the IDF people know what they are doing, but there is no figuring anything out from this AP article.
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