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Jerusalem: Ban Meets Popular Committees Reps
Ban Ki Moon Meets Popular Committees Reps During
Tour of the Wall Ban met
representatives of the Popular Committees in the West bank
and received a letter from them during a tour of the Wall
held by Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad North of
Jerusalem.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam
Fayyad invited representatives of West Bank popular
committees to join a tour of the Wall he held with UN
Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon. Members of popular
committees from Bil'in, Nabi Saleh, South Mount Hebron and
the Jordan Valley met Ban and handed him a letter at an
observation point North of the Jewish-only Givat Zeev
settlement and adjacent to the segregated Road 443 and the
Ofer military prison, where many of the popular struggle
prisoners are held.
The letter asserted the popular
committees commitment to civic, unarmed protest, and pleaded
Ban to stand by Palestinian grassroots mobilizations against
the Occupation. Ban was also asked to pressure Israel to end
the repression of protesters and their organizers and act in
their defense as Human Rights
Defenders.
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