Israel will reroute its West Bank security fence to reduce the appropriation of Palestinian land. Sections of the planned fence route that Palestinians challenged in Israel’s High Court of Justice have been redrafted, despite the fact that this will hold up the entire project until late 2005, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz was quoted as telling the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.
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