RAMALLAH, February 11, 2007, (WAFA) - International Solidarity Movement (ISM) revealed that Israeli construction companies have continued its work in a colony near Ramallah despite Supreme Court rule that settlement activity must stop.

ISM said that villagers from Bil'in today accessed their land on the other side of the Apartheid Wall in order to plant trees. The Israeli Supreme Court had previously ruled that this land, which has been built on for the expansion of the illegal Matityahu East colony, rightfully belongs to the village of Bil'in and that all settlement activity must stop.

Despite this, construction companies have continued to expand the infrastructure of the illegal settlement. Whilst digging today Bil'in villager's uncovered water pipes and phone lines under this land in violation of the Supreme Court ruling, that this land shouldn't be used as a utility right of way for the settlement.

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