West Bank barrier plan threatens ancient farming landscape

 

December 22, 2012
By Joel Greenberg
The Washington Post

BATTIR, West Bank — The old stone-walled farming terraces of this scenic Palestinian village near Jerusalem stretch along the hillsides, fed by spring water flowing through a network of irrigation channels that dates to Roman times.

 

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