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Show DAILY HERALD 1 2003 Wednesday. December A7 Israeli settlements growing despite agreement was accepted. The trailers were brought into the outpost under the cover MITZPEH DANNY, West not out of fear of darkness Bank Just six months after the government would stop Israel committed to a peace plan them; but as part of an effort to avoid protests and unwanted atrequiring it to dismantle scores of illegal Jewish settlement outtention, resident Reuven Gafni said. posts, an Associated Press inWith the arrival of a new spection of 18 of the encampments found the settlers have family last week, 20 families now call this hilltop community expanded significantly. New roads, additional trailer home, up from six a year ago. 1 With paved roads, running homes and construction on elecstone villas were among the water and a hookup to the V, 0 tric grid from a settlement striking signs of permanence. of the of across creation the the The road, people outposts many of which began with Mitzpeh Danny don't act like only an antenna, a water tower they're waiting to be evicted mirOn a recent afternoon, Gafni or a few trailers on a hill stacked large stones to create a rors the birth of some older border for a garden. Elichai West Bank settlements, which Dinner spread soil in front of his began decades ago as unauthohome in preparation for plantirized homesteads of a few trailers before the government legit- ng a lawn. Rami Dayan installed a canopy over a playimized them, gave them financial aid and installed public utiliground bench. "We build. What they argue ties. BRENNAN UNSLEYAssociated Press The outposts none of , about, I have no idea," Dayan in Reuven dirt carries Israeli outpost settler said. which house more than a few . Gafni, 29, for a garden front of his trailer home at the dozen families are so far Mitzpeh Danny and the other Mitzpeh Danny outpost, which twenty Israeli families call home, in the West Bank on Friday. unauthorized, and are widely outposts visited by AP run up viewed as a separate issue from and down the spine of the West Peace Now, an Israeli group as at older settlements. ' the 150 established West Bank Bank, separating the major pop- to end with the acceptance of Rain Soon after the summit, solsummit at road the a of centers ulation Nablus, opposed to the settlements, and Gaza Strip settlements map June attended by Prime Minisdiers, under the glare of televimallah and Jericho. Were they says Israel has only taken where some 220,000 Israelis down eight of the old outposts, sion cameras, defied protesting ter Ariel Sharon, President live. to become permanent settlebut settlers have established Prime settlers to tear down a few outBush and At Mitzpeh Danny, six miles ments, the creation of a contigufive new ones that remain Minister Mahmoud Abbas. ous Palestinian state would be from the Palestinian town of posts., The government says it has The plan required Israel to standing. Ramallah, residents easily impossible. The group says more than taken down or prevented the Many Palestinians and peace immediately remove the estismuggled four large trailer -100 outposts remain, some es- establishment of 43 outposts mated 60 outposts established activists who yearn for a two- homes into their burgeoning state solution fear that is exact- " since March 2001, when Sharon since the summit: It has refused tarnished before March zoo It -community over the last four to release a list of these, despite The numbers can change daily took office, and freeze con- ly what is happening. months, well after the with the comings and goings of as well Such outposts were supposed struction at the rest "road map" peace plan repeated requests from AP. RaviNessman - trailer homes. Sharon told reporters last week his government did not plan to tear down all the outposts, saying some had "supreme security value." "Whatever is illegal will be removed What is necessary' will remain," he said Officials 4 said some outposts would be legalized Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, speaking in an interview, said Israel must remove all the outposts, as required by the road map. This must stop," he said "We must see genuine steps on the ground not dismantling a caravan here and a caravan there." Defense Ministry officials said Tuesday they planned to dismantle several outposts in the coming days. Sharon adviser Zalman Shoval said some outposts may have been beefed up in recent months, but without government approval. "Perhaps people were not watchful enough," he , THE ASSOCIATED PRESS n U.S.-back- said Peace activists dismiss that . claim, saying new power lines and paved roads could only have been installed with at least tacit government approval. "The Israeli policy is not to evacuate outposts and not to dismantle outposts, but to expand the outposts and make them permanent settlements," said Yariv Oppenheimer of 1 Peace Nowr"All the talk of dismantling the outposts is just words." Advocates push for changes in handlin of detained children pany of smugglers. While they wait, many live in shelters that share facilities with teenage delinquents. Schooling is limited Many have no access to a lawyer. Contact with the outside world is often limited to visiting hours, a few days a David B. Caruso ' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA Julian Yeboah was 10 and had $ 1.25 in his pockets when he arrived alone in New York after a long flight from Ghana. Immigration officials, unsure 'week. Critics say the system treats of where the boy's parents were or how he boarded the plane immigrant children too much like criminals. without travel documents, sent "Most of these kids didn't do him to a detention center in Pennsylvania while they figured anything wrong, except for out what to do with him. Three crossing the border," said Mer-ri- tt is in still he Becker, a policy advocate later, custody. years for the Lutheran Immigration Child advocates said the and Refugee Service. "They deis one of hundreds of deserve better treatment." in who languish youngsters The problem is one lawmak- tention for months or even ers have recognized for years years after they are captured and have targeted in a series of trying to cross the border illegally, either alone or in the com recent reforms. . : This year, responsibility for caring for detained children was transferred from the former Immigration and Naturalization Service to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. Advocates said the move has drastically increased the number of children placed in foster care or reunited with their relatives. A bill before the House and Senate would make further changes, including creating a system that would link every detained child with a lawyer working for free. The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act, sponsored by Sea Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, both California lniocrats, wodd also limit (!! Miimi I W 10701 HlUHP 1 mil Mi li i mm 3i R A L P H RALPH LAUREN Wool Ml ?l I it A federal appeals court ruled against Julian in September, but it is unclear when he might be forced to leave. His attorney, Gerard Dever, has appealed Julian is now being held in a group home, Dever said He declined to say where. "The kids in these places are not allowed to wear regular clothes. They have to wear sweat suits or jump suits. There are videotaped all the time. They are fenced in. In a lot of cases, they are not allowed to wear shoes, they have to wear these prison slippers," Nugent said. "They are sort of out of sight, out of mind We have to change that." Youth Center in Leesport after he turned up at Kennedy Airport in 2000. The circumstances of his arrival in the United States remain in dispute. Immigration officials said his father put him on a flight from Ghana with the intention of sending him to live with an aunt, possibly in the mistaken belief that Julian could legally send for the rest of his family when he turned 18. Julian's volunteer attorneys have argued that he was abused by his family in Ghana and should be given a special classification that lets abandoned juveniles remain in the United States in foster care. the circumstances in which children could be placed in a secure detention center and mandate the appointment of a guardian for each of them who would act as an advocate in the absence of their parents. . Chris Nugent, a Washington lawyer whose firm represents several detained children, said the goal is to reduce the time the children spend in limbo and ensure that they are better cared for until their cases are , resolved "Right now, it's a broken system," he said At best, it has been a sluggish system for Julian Yeboah, who was sent to the Berks County J - ' ; Car Coat EXCLUSIVELY AT DILLARD'S Incredibly warm. Definitely 36' length for comfort V Ralph"' o and ease. 1 00 lambswool for e: Ktra' warmth and durability. n Angled side pockets for easy entry, Fully satin lined an elegant feel. 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