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JERUSALEM, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Israel's state attorney, Michael Blass, told the Israel High Court Monday the government is "reconsidering" the route of the separation fence.
The Ha'aretz news service said the three-justice High Court panel convened to hear several petitions against the construction of the barrier on West Bank land. Debate on the issue begins in two weeks at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
"The fence route will probably be moved, and a change of policy in the seam-line area is being considered in order to ease, as much as the possible, the lives of the Palestinians living in it," said Blass.
Monday's petitions are not the first against the fence; numerous petitions have already been submitted and debated. In some cases, decisions have been handed down, while others are still pending.
Sunday, the chairman of the National Security Council, Giora Eiland, said the fence's planners had failed to foresee the degree to which it would disrupt Palestinians' daily lives, and called for this error to be rectified.
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