What: A march to lands isolated behind the Wall

When: 10:30 AM, Saturday, 14 Novemebr, 2009

Where: Deir elGhussoun, north of Tulkarem

The residents of Deir elGhussoun, a Palestinian village north of the West Bank city of Tul Karm, together with their Israeli and international supporters, will march towards their lands that are isolated behind Israel's wall this Saturday, and demand the immediate dismantling of Israel's wall on their lands.

The Saturday demonstration will be the opening salvo for a public campaign by the Deir elGhussoun municipality and the affected farmers, which will accompany an appeal the Israeli High Court of Justice, to remove the already built wall from the village's land. The said appeal is expected to be filed in the near future.

For no apparent reason other than land-grab, the wall in the area creeps deep into the West Bank, leaving about 2,500 dunams (620 acres) of the village's land west of the wall (on the "Israeli" side), affecting 120 land owners, dozens of which do not receive permits from the Israeli army to even minimally tend to their lands.

In an advisory opinion issued in July 2004, the International Court of Justice in the Hague has declared the path of Israel's wall in the West Bank illegal in its entirety, and ordered its removal. To date, Israel continues to disregard international law, and continues to build the wall and expand settlements.