Proposal to wall off Arab areas
Israel should cut off outlying Arab neighborhoods from Jerusalem, Israel’s vice premier proposed, a day after a Palestinian construction worker from one of the districts went on a deadly rampage in the city’s center.
Vice Premier Haim Ramon wants the route of Israel’s separation barrier to exclude Arab districts, saying it would improve security. The wall already rings much of the city.
Hussam Duwayaat, 30, driving a massive construction vehicle, rammed buses, crushed cars and targeted pedestrians. Three people were killed before an off-duty Israeli soldier fatally shot him.
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