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Tre ordini demolizione consegnati al villaggio palestinese di Al Mufagarah, nelle colline a sud di Hebron

17 luglio 2012 – At-Tuwani – Colline a sud di Hebron

Il 16 luglio 2012, alle ore 13.30 circa, il DCO (District Coordination Office: la sezione dell’esercito israeliano che si occupa dell’amministrazione civile dei Territori Palestinesi Occupati), accompagnato da una camionetta dell’esercito israeliano, ha consegnato tre ordini di demolizione ad altrettante strutture nel villaggio di Al Mufaqarah.

Nello specifico si tratta di una casa, in cui vive una famiglia composta da undici persone, e due tende, di cui una costruita su fondamenta di mattoni.
Tali provvedimenti si ricollegano ad altri precedenti: il 10 giugno, infatti, sono stati emanati ordini di fermo dei lavori che coinvolgono le stesse strutture, peraltro utilizzate a fini abitativi.

In base a quanto riportato negli ordini in questione, i proprietari hanno tre giorni di tempo per abbattere autonomamente le costruzioni, in caso contrario l’autorità israeliana provvederà alla loro demolizione.

Una delle strutture coinvolte è stata costruita durante la campagna “ Al Mufaqarah R-Exist”, volta alla costruzione di case di mattoni per affermare il diritto del villaggio (sistematicamente minacciato da politiche di evacuazione) a continuare ad esistere sulla propria terra.
Una delle due tende è stata utilizzata durante la campagna per ospitare le delegazioni internazionali in visita e per il campo estivo tenutosi al villaggio a cui hanno partecipato anche i bambini provenienti dai villaggi limitrofi (At-Tuwani, Jawwaya, Maghayir Al Abeed e Tuba).

L’autorità israeliana continua a perpetrare una politica di restrizioni, chiusura, demolizioni, evacuazioni e soprusi che unita alle continue violenze da parte dei coloni presenti nell’area, nega di fatto i diritti dei palestinesi, ostacolando la possibilità di vivere nei propri villaggi, coltivare le proprie terre e impedendo lo sviluppo delle comunità locali.

Gli ordini di demolizione sono stati consegnati due giorni dopo il Quinto Festival Annuale della Resistenza Popolare Nonviolenta delle Colline a sud di Hebron tenutosi proprio ad Al Mufaqarah con lo scopo di celebrare l’impegno che gli abitanti di tutta l’area portano avanti attraverso azioni di resistenza nonviolenta per difendere la propria vita e le proprie terre.

Operazione Colomba mantiene una presenza costante nel villaggio di At-Tuwani e nell’area delle colline a sud di Hebron dal 2004.

Foto:  http://snipurl.com/24cbzog

[Note: secondo la IV Convenzione di Ginevra, la II Convenzione dell’Aja, la Corte Internazionale di Giustizia e numerose risoluzioni ONU, tutti gli insediamenti israeliani nei Territori Palestinesi Occupati sono illegali. Gli avamposti sono considerati illegali anche secondo la legge israeliana.]

In the morning of 3rd July two Operation Dove volunteers found these writings on a Palestinian well in Humra Valley, next to Havat Ma’on Israeli outpost.
The writings say: “Mavet laaravim – Kahane tsadak”, which mean “Death to the Arabs, Kahane was right”. Martin David Kahane, also known as Meir Kahane, was the leader of the Israeli terrorist and anti-arab organisation Kach.
On the 27th June, settlers from Havat Ma’on outpost came out several times and took a bath in this well.
On the same day a Palestinian shepherd found a sticker on the same place, saying: “We want a Jewish state”.
The well of Humra is the only one with a high level of water, this is due to the fact that the Palestinians are afraid of using it because of the violence of the settlers.

By Amira Hass, Haaretz – 18 June 2012

Three High Court justices sit down to familiarize themselves with the facts: The residents continue to build without construction permits. And the three justices issue an interim order against any such construction within the two clusters that the petition relates to. The order was issued on June 7, the day after the petition and had been discussed.

Subject of the petition: Illegal outpost

Essence of the petition: Disregard of the laws of symmetry and the failure to implement the house-demolition orders issued regarding the structures of the said outpost. The subtext is clear: You ruled against Migron and the Ulpana neighborhood; why are you silent this time?

The justices: Asher Grunis, Hanan Melcer and Daphna Barak-Erez

The buildings: Neither low-rise apartment blocks like the ones in the Ulpana neighborhood nor single-family villas similar to housing in the West Bank settlement of Ofra (the vast majority of which is constructed on private land belonging to the villages of Silwad and Ein Yabrud, and therefore also lacks a detailed construction and development plan ), not even trailers hooked up to water and electricity like the ones in Migron and Givat Assaf. Only a cluster of hovels, tents and concrete rooms slapped together in a hurry.

Guess: The residents are Palestinians (only Palestinian “illegal outposts” remain unconnected to the electricity grid, phone and water lines ).

The land: Private Palestinian land, just like in Migron, Givat Assaf and Ofra, but unlike the Jewish outposts, this “outpost” is located on land owned by its inhabitants. No forged signatures or documents, no other acts of fraud perpetuated.

Name: Susya, southern slope of Mount Hebron

Some history: The adjacent Jewish West Bank settlement of Susya was erected in 1983.

1986: A confiscation order is issued against the lands of the Palestinian village Susya. The village is decreed an archaeological site (because of remnants of an ancient Jewish settlement ). And the Palestinian residents? Instead of treating them with respect and thanking them for preserving the location over the centuries, the IDF and Civil Administration expel them from their homes (caves located among ancient stone structures ), wells and fields.

And then? Susya’s Palestinian residents, members of the Nawaj’ah family, move onto the land they’ve been farming, into caves and tents.

July 2001: Under the guise of the second intifada, the IDF and Civil Administration expel the Nawaj’ah family for a second time. Tents are crushed, caves and wells sealed and wrecked, farmland destroyed, animals killed.

A small but surprising twist: On September 26, 2001, the High Court of Justice instructs the authorities to stop destroying the buildings at the height of a public campaign by the residents and left-wing groups, and the residents’ legal battle led by attorney Shlomo Lecker.

Despite the injunction, Jewish settlers and the army prevent the residents’ access to some 3,000 dunams (about 740 acres ) of their land.

The court orders an end to the demolition and expulsion, but does not instruct the Civil Administration to allow the Palestinians to build, forcing them to build without permits, for example, a school. As of May 2012, 18 demolition orders have been issued against hovels and buildings, including a school.

Another plot twist: Via the organization Rabbis for Human Rights, Susya residents appeal the blocked access to their private land and the fact that Jewish settlers are making a grab for it.

Another surprise twist: In October 2011, the military commanding officer declares a large part of their land as “closed to Israelis,” i.e., Jewish settlers, in order to stop the encroachment and land grab.

An attempt to fix the twist, February 2012: Regavim, a nonprofit association to protect the Jewish nation’s land, and the Jewish settlement of Susya petition the High Court to accelerate the pace of the Palestinian Susya demolition orders and to stop construction. In other words: a recipe for a third expulsion.

In her response, Attorney Avital Sharon of Rabbis for Human Rights points to the petition’s lack of good faith, and why it should be rejected outright. For example, she points to unauthorized construction in Jewish Susya and to the fact that the director general of Regavim himself lives in an unauthorized outpost.

Sharon also also gives reasons for the case in question: the earliest expulsion. The Civil Administration discriminates against Palestinians by not creating construction and development plans for them. Contrary to what is stated in the petition, the Civil Administration tirelessly demolishes Palestinian structures. In the last four years alone, 1,101 such structures have been demolished. Susya and the rabbis are busy working on a construction and development plan for the village (even though this is the responsibility of the official authorities ).

The judges listen to the supposed voice of symmetry coming from the petition submitted by Regavim and the Jewish settlement of Susya and do not reject the petition outright. They even issue an interim order to stop new construction in the village of Susya.

Construction in the Jewish settlement Susya continues, as it does in its satellite outposts.

As a result of the High Court ruling, officers of the Civil Administration show up in Susya on June 12 and hand out six collective demolition orders affecting 52 buildings, including a preschool, a clinic and a solar panel system supplying electricity to the village and its steadfast residents.

Demolition time frame: within three days (Attorney Quamar Mishirqi Assad of Rabbis for Human Rights manages to get a 10-day extension to submit challenges to the demolition orders ).

The residents of Susya ask the honorable justices Grunis, Melcer and Barak-Erez: Is this how you understand the word “justice” of your titles?

Link: http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/the-law-ass-or-donkey.premium-1.437023

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Cinque ordini di fermo dei lavori consegnati al villaggio di Tuba, nelle Colline a Sud di Hebron

18 giugno 2012

At-Tuwani – Alle 11:30 del 18 giugno il DCO (District Coordination Office: la sezione dell’esercito israeliano che si occupa dell’amministrazione civile dei territori palestinesi occupati) ha consegnato nel villaggio palestinese di Tuba cinque ordini di fermo dei lavori che coinvolgono le proprietà di due delle tre famiglie che vi abitano.

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By Nasser Nawaj’ah

I am Nasser Nawaj’ah. I am 30 years old. My mother gave birth to me in a cave in Susya El-Kadis. You know of Susya as a Jewish settlement in the South Hebron Hills, but Susya is first of all a Palestinian village that existed before the establishment of the State of Israel.

I was named after my grandfather, who was still alive at the time. In 1948, he was displaced from his village near Arad, now in southern Israel. When they were expelled, my father was just a little boy and my grandfather carried him in his arms until they reached their family in Susya El Kadis. They hoped one day to return to their village, but my grandfather died without ever seeing it again.

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Rischio evacuazione per due villaggi palestinesi nelle colline a sud di Hebron

15 giugno 2012

At-Tuwani – Il 12 giugno il DCO (la sezione dell’esercito israeliano che si occupa dell’amministrazione civile) ha consegnato nei villaggi palestinesi di Susiya e Wadi Jehesh ordini di demolizione esecutivi che coinvolgono più di 50 strutture. Tali ordini, se applicati, comporterebbero la quasi totale cancellazione dall’area delle due comunità palestinesi interessate.

11 giugno 2012

At-Tuwani

Sulla sola strada che collega l’area di Massafer Yatta con la cittadina di Yatta e il resto della West Bank un trattore portava materiale da costruzione al villaggio di At-Tuwani. Erano le ore 20 del’ 8 di giugno e due camionette dell’esercito israeliano lo aspettavano lungo il tragitto. Il guidatore viene respinto e obbligato a tornare indietro. Poco più tardi un secondo trattore è bloccato dai militari, ma il guidatore, intimato anche lui a invertire la marcia, si rifiuta. I soldati, allora, lo costringono ad attendere l’arrivo della polizia.

Una trentina di palestinesi, provenienti dai villaggi di At-Tuwani, Al Mufaqarah e Ar-Rakeez, sono accorsi sul posto ma i soldati hanno impedito loro di avvicinarsi al mezzo. Tuttavia, un gruppo di circa quindici donne si è avvicinato al blocco e ha iniziato a camminare verso il trattore superando i soldati, senza dare ascolto all’ordine di fermarsi. In pochi minuti la pressione delle donne è riuscita a rompere il blocco: i soldati, disarmati di fronte alla loro decisione, hanno dovuto farsi da parte e liberare la strada permettendo così al mezzo di raggiungere il villaggio.

Foto dell’espansione di Ma’on dal 2010:     http://snipurl.com/23eyc9e

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Cinque pastori palestinesi arrestati durante una manifestazione nonviolenta nelle Colline a Sud di Hebron

22 aprile 2012

At-Tuwani – Il giorno 21 aprile cinque pastori palestinesi sono stati arrestati dall’esercito e dalla polizia israeliana presso la collina di Meshaha durante una manifestazione partecipata da palestinesi, attivisti israeliani e volontari internazionali.

Fonte: Ha’aretz

In theory, Migron should have been an open-and-shut case. The state did not deny that Migron had been erected illegally, on private Palestinian land. Nor did it deny that the settlers’ claims that they had purchased the land were found to be baseless.

In the words of the High Court of Justice, the building of the outpost and its ongoing expansion were a blatant violation of the law that undermined the property rights of the Palestinian owners. It had to be demolished. Thus the court had ruled.

And after repeated delays, during which the outpost continued to expand, the court had had enough. “The obligation to carry out a court ruling is not a matter of choice,” noted Justice Miriam Naor.