Palestinians Break open Illegal Apartheid Wall to Commemorate Fall of Berlin Wall
“No matter how high walls are built, they will fall. Just as
the Berlin Wall fell, the wall in Palestine
will fall, along with the occupation,” the popular committees said in a
statement.
The activists said that their aim in destroying the wall was
also to stress that Jerusalem is an Arab and
Palestinian city, and that neither the construction of the separation wall nor
Israeli military reinforcement could prevent Palestinians from reaching Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa
mosque. The activists also called upon Palestinians to unite and
take part in the battle for Jerusalem ,
and to defend the al-Aqsa mosque and all Islamic and Christian holy sites.
They also called upon people to be ready to take part in the
“intifada” of Jerusalem , which they said would
be “the final, fateful intifada to liberate Palestine .”
The Berlin Wall officially fell on Nov. 9, 1989, after
having divided the German capital for nearly 30 years. The Israeli separation wall is in many places more than
double as high and nearly six times as long, as it cuts across the West Bank to divide Palestinians from other Palestinians
ostensibly in order to ensure Israeli “security.”
In 2004 the International Court of Justice ruled that the
separation wall was illegal and “tantamount to annexation.” Critics have called the wall part of a land grab designed to
ensure Jewish-only settlements built on occupied territory housing around
550,000 Israelis will become part of Israel de facto despite the lack of
a peace agreement, in effect legalizing land confiscation.
Mirrored from Ma’an News Agency
