ram, West Bank Israel says the partially completed barrier, a network of razor-tipped fencing and concrete walls, is necessary to block its cities to suicide bombers, who have killed more than 450 Israelis during a nearly four-year-old Palestinian uprising. Palestinians call the barrier, which the World Court has ruled illegal, a land grab on territory they seek for a state. Israel's Defence Ministry and army had no immediate comment. Israel's High Court has yet to issue a final ruling on the course of the wall in ar-Ram. Palestinians living and working on the West Bank side of the street -- who for the past three months have watched bulldozers tear up the street and workers lay the groundwork for the wall -- said they felt hopeless. "They are burying people alive. The people here are conscious and they are putting us in the ground ... This is killing us slowly," said ar-Ram tyre dealer Nabil, whose shop is just across the street from one of two new sections of wall. Palestinians say the wall in ar-Ram will cut off from Jerusalem tens of thousands of Palestinians -- many of them legal residents of the city who moved to the suburbs as their families expanded. --More 1912 Local Time 1612 GMT
