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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/58980/full/58980/in-sign-of-calm-israel-removes-gilo-barrier/ <br /><br /> <b>In sign of calm, Israel removes Gilo barrier</b> <br /> Thursday, August 19, 2010 | by <br /><br /><p>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.</p> <p> <div class="capDivLeft" style="width: 360px;"><img alt="MEshorts gilo" class="left" height="254" src="http://www.jweekly.com/images/uploads/y_photos_2010/s08_20_10/MEshorts gilo.jpg" title="An Israeli army crane loads a section of dismantled concrete wall in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem. photo/ap/sebastian scheiner" width="360" /> <div class="caption">An Israeli army crane loads a section of dismantled concrete wall in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem. photo/ap/sebastian scheiner</div> </div> The Israeli military erected the 600-yard concrete barrier nine years ago on the outskirts of the Gilo neighborhood in southern Jerusalem because of repeated Palestinian shootings from the West Bank town of Beit Jala.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.<em>— ap</em></p>

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