Jerusalem
Israel said this week that it would move parts of its controversial West Bank separation barrier to ease some of the hardships for Palestinians. Israel says it needs a fence to keep out suicide bombers, but the Palestinians say the wall divides families and annexes part of their territory. Israeli human-rights activists recently brought court cases opposing the wall in Israeli courts and at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague. In response, the Israeli government flew the twisted, bloody wreckage of a bus in which a suicide bomber killed 11 people to The Hague, to demonstrate the need for a barrier.
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