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<p><strong>Maan News Agency | Febr 5, 2012</strong><br />
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<p>BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) &#8212; Israeli forces arrested four activists at a protest in al-Walaja village near Bethlehem on Sunday.</p>
<p>A statement from the Popular Committee Against the Wall said that Israeli forces arrested campaign coordinator Mazin al-Aza and three others.</p>
<p>The protests against the Israeli separation wall began at the al-Nour mosque in the village, before heading to al-Jweza spring.</p>
<p>Residents of the southern West Bank village are overwhelmingly refugees, driven from the historic al-Walaja, located just across the valley from the current population center.</p>
<p>The village was, in 1948, the second largest land area after Jerusalem but was cut down to one third the size when Israel declared statehood that year.</p>
<p>Now a border village, al-Walaja is edged on its eastern flank by an expanding bloc of settlements and is being reduced in size by the path of Israel&#8217;s separation wall which annexes between two and three kilometers of village lands from the pre-1967 border.</p>
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