Israeli barrier and settlement to leave West Bank village with nowhere to go

Rory McCarthy in Wadi FukinMonday - (click here for full story)
October 30, 2006The Guardian
Land confiscation and pollution threaten future of ancient farming community
It is this view of Wadi Fukin, a village of 1,200 Palestinians just inside the occupied West Bank, that has long attracted Israeli tourists, who hike and swim in the reservoirs. The ancient farming practices have created a "unique cultural landscape" deserving of world heritage status, says Gidon Bromberg, Israeli director of Friends of the Earth Middle East.
But this is no longer all Mr Ibrahim sees. On the hills to the south and east of the village is a rapidly expanding ultra-orthodox Jewish settlement built on Palestinian land seized by the Israeli government and declared "state land".