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20 Feb, 2024
Around the village of Susia there are at least five illegal outposts, which Israel connects to water infrastructure. And the water line of the Sosia settlement itself runs a few meters from the Palestinian homes, within their private lands.
Around the village of Susia there are at least five illegal outposts, which Israel connects to water infrastructure. And the water line of the Sosia settlement itself runs a few meters from the Palestinian homes, within their private lands.
This morning, soldiers and police arrived in the village of Susia, together with Bager. They dug with the excavator on private lands, entered the village armed and scared the residents, all this under the pretext of an illegal connection to the water infrastructure. When you are Palestinian, nothing is illegal, even the basic need for drinking water is a violation of the law.
The cisterns that have been used by the residents to store rainwater for generations are also defined as illegal. At the beginning of the war, forces arrived and destroyed two large cisterns in the village of Susia. Illegal construction you say? law enforcement?
18 Feb
In the evening, settlers arrived at a family home in Am Darit, near Sha’ab al Botum. The settlers attacked the family with stones and tried to run over the herd of sheep and shepherds who were near the house. After that, settlers wearing uniforms also arrived at the family’s house. They and the settlers who attacked, took the father of the family and his son, and drove with them in an ATV towards the settlement.
Immediately after that, dozens of settler-soldiers, including the violent and notorious settler Bezalel Talia, invaded the village of Sha’ev el Botum. They walked around with drawn weapons inside and between the houses, while demolishing equipment including an agricultural fence, without any reason or legal order.
During the invasion, they also took another resident with them… Some of the other faces of the invaders are well known to us. Some of them have participated in recent weeks in invasions of private lands in Susia and attacked shepherds and sheep in the village of Sadat al-T’ala.
We have already written about the house from which the father and son were taken. How settlers caused heavy damage to it, looted it and set up an outpost in front of it. This led to the family having to move to sleep with relatives for several months due to the fear of being attacked.
So far it is not known what happened to the three people who were taken and by whom they are being held. The police, who received an update on the settlers’ invasion at the beginning of the event but chose to arrive only at its end, as usual, spoke only to the invaders and left the area. Another wonderful day under the apartheid regime.
17 Feb
Today at noon, two children from the village of Mufagra were attacked while they were grazing the sheep. Two settlers came and threw stones at them, while other settlers and armed men stand on the hill and watch. When the army arrived at the scene, he also joined in watching what was happening without interfering, then left the scene.
One of the children was injured by the stones they threw, the other fell when he tried to escape. One of the sheep was also injured by the stones. One of the children was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
15 Feb
And again he took down the same group of soldiers. This time they advanced straight to the mosque. I offered them that I would bring the key, but they said they would enter like this, broke the door and entered, so they broke the windows, tore up mattresses, broke the speaker and the internet router, destroyed everything. Books of the Koran were found crooked, thrown on the floor
14 Feb
Since the beginning of the war, about 1,000 people from 16 villages in the West Bank have been driven from their homes through settler and army violence. This is not a new phenomenon, but what can be done to counter it? Even long before the war, Israeli and international activists work together with local activists in Safar Yatta (south of Mount Hebron), on the back of the mountain and in the valley.
In these areas they stand in solidarity with Palestinian communities that are at risk from ethnic cleansing. We document, accompany shepherds and strengthen our presence in villages that are at risk. Come and hear from the activists in the field about what it looks like in practice, and how you can join!
14 Feb
One year ago today Haron Abu Aram died. A kind-hearted young man who was left paralyzed from the neck down after a soldier shot him in the neck while they were destroying his neighbor’s house. During the demolition, the soldiers tried to confiscate a generator from his neighbor, Haron, who was all heart, tried to save the generator from confiscation, took it in his hands and tried to get away from the soldiers, but
One of the soldiers decided that such an act was worth the death penalty and shot him in the neck at point blank range. For about two years, Haron lay paralyzed throughout his body, waiting for his death. He was in pain at any given moment. Hospitals, treatments, surgeries, drugs, leg amputation and then the other leg. At night he repeatedly dreamed of the moments of the shooting.
In the cave where he lived with his family (after the occupation destroyed the house he built for him and his future wife) in the village of Rakiz in Masafar Yatta. His family took care of him and did what they could to keep him alive. A year ago he died following the severe injury that paralyzed his body completely.
13 Feb
Yesterday, the two members of the family who were brutally arrested on their private land by soldiers who came to secure the settler Shem Tov Loski who invaded the plot were released. These arrests are part of the takeover of the land and the dispossession of the Palestinians from their lands. Again 10 days in the Ofer camp, ten days of a nightmare, for a judge to realize in a second that there is no case here and release.
Large military forces of dozens of soldiers invaded the village and opened fire in what appeared to be a devastating act of revenge. Dozens of soldiers entered the residents’ homes, and carried out “searches” in them, which is of course just an excuse to break and steal people’s personal belongings, brandish weapons at families, or in short what any sane person would call – terrorism.
3 Feb
The Mob policemen attacked, pushed, beat and sprayed the landowners with gas. While they allow the settlers to graze their herd inside the Palestinians’ olive grove. During the event, two members of the landowners’ family were arrested, not before they were severely beaten, punched in the face, kicked, sitting on the head of one after he was knocked to the ground (George Floyd).
After the incident, the Palestinians were interrogated at a police station, where they decided to keep them in custody for 8 days – before the hearing. The soldiers and mop-up police continued to push out the entire family of the landowners, without any order or legal explanation, they allowed the settlers and their herds to invade that plantation.
From previous testimonies we know that part of what may await them in detention is: physical and mental abuse, violence, humiliation and unreasonable living conditions in the detention center. At the same time Shem Tov Loski will continue to add more and more successful days of ethnic cleansing to the list.
