Their house was destroyed by the army, which does not allow them to rebuild it.Their land is claimed by the Jewish settlers. But they resist.
South Mount Hebron.
A queue of seven-year olds lining up before a soldier who searches their schoolbags.
Streets emptied of people and shops closed whenever the settlers decide to walk in the street.
People attacked in their homes by the settlers, who have their children throw blocks of stone at Palestinian kids. Or bags of garbage.
Welcome to Hebron!
Israeli observation tower - with snipers - overlooking the Arab market
Welcome to Hebron is an interesting and relatively short documentary produced by Terje Carlsson (can that name be any more Swedish?) about life in Hebron, following around a 17-year old, Leila, who has to avoid the stones of angry settlers and the harrasment of the soldiers to go to school or to visit a friend.
And the documentary (now available online, by the way) is keeping it mild. Amira who visited Hebron a few weeks back reported on the story of a man who refused to sell his house to settlers: they murdered two of his children, and beat up his pregnant wife, making her lose the baby.
Yes, it's THAT awful.
They, and a couple of other families, are forced to live in tents because
the army destroys any construction they build. On their own land.
South Mount Hebron.
While I found absolutely repulsive the horror the Palestinians live in, what shocked me the most was the normalcy of it all. Palestinians go about their lives, minding their own business; settlers about theirs, poisoning the Palestinians' existence. (incidentally, if what goes on in Hebron is not terrorism, I don't know what is).
That's how it is, that's likely how it's going to remain.
AND a very loosely related article about how the West Bank will be where things will be determined (or not): "The real Israel-Palestine story is in the West Bank.
I'll up the article one: the real story is in Hebron.
Streets emptied of people and shops closed whenever the settlers decide to walk in the street.
People attacked in their homes by the settlers, who have their children throw blocks of stone at Palestinian kids. Or bags of garbage.
Welcome to Hebron!
Israeli observation tower - with snipers - overlooking the Arab marketWelcome to Hebron is an interesting and relatively short documentary produced by Terje Carlsson (can that name be any more Swedish?) about life in Hebron, following around a 17-year old, Leila, who has to avoid the stones of angry settlers and the harrasment of the soldiers to go to school or to visit a friend.
And the documentary (now available online, by the way) is keeping it mild. Amira who visited Hebron a few weeks back reported on the story of a man who refused to sell his house to settlers: they murdered two of his children, and beat up his pregnant wife, making her lose the baby.
Yes, it's THAT awful.
They, and a couple of other families, are forced to live in tents becausethe army destroys any construction they build. On their own land.
South Mount Hebron.
While I found absolutely repulsive the horror the Palestinians live in, what shocked me the most was the normalcy of it all. Palestinians go about their lives, minding their own business; settlers about theirs, poisoning the Palestinians' existence. (incidentally, if what goes on in Hebron is not terrorism, I don't know what is).
That's how it is, that's likely how it's going to remain.
AND a very loosely related article about how the West Bank will be where things will be determined (or not): "The real Israel-Palestine story is in the West Bank.
I'll up the article one: the real story is in Hebron.
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