The house of the Gharib family in the occupied West Bank is surrounded by an eight-meter metal fence, and in order to enter their house, they must pass through a gate controlled by the Israeli security forces.
FROM Israel Having occupied the area after the Six-Day War in 1967, Jewish settlements proliferated around the family home, turning it into an isolated island from the Palestinian village of Beit Ija.
“I don’t know when it will end,” Saadat Gharib said. “No one knows the pain my kids are in.”
For years the house was surrounded by farmland, but access is now controlled by a yellow gate controlled by Israeli soldiers.
“Those years we had a very hard life,” said Gharib, 40, who works in the Palestinian Authority near Ramallah.
In 1978, the Israelis stationed their caravans near his 100 dunam (ten hectares) plot of land and offered to buy dunam from him, which he refused.
For many years, the government Israel He gradually confiscated plots to allow the settlement of settlers, which led to Givon Khahadash, an illegal settlement under international law.
Of his original land of 100 dunams, Gharib has only 60.
“There is no more than half of the duran in the house, and it is fenced on all sides,” this official lamented.
To leave Gharib’s house West Coast You must go through a corridor with barbed wire and pass through a heavy yellow gate remotely controlled by the security forces Israel.
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Of all the legal cases brought by the family, few have succeeded, despite the help of the Israeli anti-settlement NGO Yesh Din.
In 2012 Judge Mr. Israel he provided them with about 3% of the land that Gharib claims to own and that the settlers use as a parking lot and a park. But the solution has not yet been applied.
In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned security measures that required showing ID in front of a camera to be able to get through the heavy yellow front door, with limited opening hours.
Now the family can theoretically come and go as they please.
Except when the security forces think there is some risk, in which case they can close the door at will.
“All these years we have been living a difficult life,” Saadat bypasses, blaming the forces Israel for ransacking his house, making arrests and always being on the side of the settlers in any confrontation.
Sa’adat installed a blue tarp at the bottom of the fence so that his children could “play without being disturbed or afraid of the settlers”, with whom he had already had several incidents.
“We don’t like this fence either, it’s right above us,” says Avi Zippori, one of the first Israelis to establish a settlement in West Coast.
According to him, a Palestinian family lives on Jewish land, and a colony of 1,000 inhabitants has received a green light from justice. Israel. He states that he does not want to destroy Gharib’s house, but regrets that “they do not accept an alternative plan, financial compensation, other land.”
“All the money in the world”
“I don’t know when all this will end,” sighs Saadat Gharib, who fears for his children.
Now he does not have access to his olive trees, which grow on the other side of the settlement, so he depends on the will of the Israeli army to grow them.
But he assures that this nightmarish situation will not force him to give up his land.
“This is our land, which I inherited from my father, and he inherited from my grandfather. I wouldn’t sell it for any money,” he says.
(According to AFP)
Palestinian family surrounded by Israeli settlement | Font: AFP
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