Israeli security forces dispersed a group of Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, towards the end of a demonstration against the construction of Israel’s separation barrier.<br /><br /> The police said they made two arrests.<br /><br /> Court rulings have stopped part of the barrier that would have separated a monastery from a convent of the same Catholic order.<br /><br /> But Israel has carried on building the rest of the wall, leaving only a short gap.<br /><br /> Among the protesters in the Christian village of Beit Jala was the former Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.<br /><br /> “Our message is: this land is ours. Whatever you ruled, whatever you decided, you are deciding by the force of wars and weapons, and this is illegal,” Michel Sabbah said.<br /><br /> Protesters believe the wall is being used to link Israeli settlements, consolidating the annexation of Christian land.<br /><br /> In 2004 the International Court of Justice ruled that the planned 700-kilometre barrier was illegal, citing the part Israel had begun building in
