The IDF has declared the area around Nablus a closed military zone - presumably so they can start firing live rounds in addition to tear gas grenades at peaceful protesters demanding the ripping down of the Apartheid Wall.
Meanwhile Pink Floyd's Roger Waters (he went to my old school - The Perse, Cambridge) is in the West Bank seeing the Wall for himself:
"Pink Floyd's former frontman Roger Waters said yesterday he'll take to the stage the minute Israel tears down its West Bank separation wall, just as he did in Berlin two decades ago when another wall came down.
Visiting a Palestinian refugee camp in the shadows of the towering concrete structure, the British rocker who co-wrote the iconic 1970s album The Wall said he hopes "this awful thing" is destroyed soon.
Waters, 65, said the West Bank wall has been on his mind since he first saw it up close in what he described as an eye-opening visit in 2006, following a concert in Israel. "People who haven't actually seen this, what's going on here, can't imagine the impression that it has on you, the sick, kind of churning feeling that you get in your very heart when you see this, how depressing it is," Waters said.
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Water's comments didn't sit very well with Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev, who, quoting The Wall's most famous lyric, said we don't need no education from Waters." more
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