[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [GushShalom] Joint olive harvesting - too late for Hirbat
Yanun
Alfred Kagan
akagan at uiuc.edu
Mon Oct 21 08:52:37 CDT 2002
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>Immediate Release
>October 19, 2002
>
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>-Two hundred peace activists join Palestinian farmers in olive harvesting
>-Too late for Hirbat Yanun: the last inhabitants flee for settlers
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>This morning 200 peace activists - from Gush Shalom, Peace Now,
>Ta'ayush and the
>Women's Coalition for Peace - went to several West Bank locations to
>protect by their
>presence Palestinians from settler harassment during the olive
>harvest. That it is about
>a lot more than this years' olives may become clear from the
>following which appears
>today on the Ha'aretz website:
>
>Ha'aretz Internet Edition
>Saturday, October 19, 2002. Last update - 10:06 19/10/2002
>
>
>Palestinians abandon W. Bank village, citing attacks by settlers
>
>By The Associated Press
>
> The Sobih family vacating their village of Hirbat Yanun on Friday.
>(Photo: AP)
>
>Six Palestinian families set out Friday from the village of the West
>Bank village of
>Hirbat Yanun, leaving it completely abandoned.
>
>Once home to 25 families, members of the Sobih clan said they were
>fleeing after four
>years of worsening attacks by Jewish settlers who have set up
>illegal outposts on
>nearby hilltops. The attacks have become increasingly frequent in
>recent months, they
>said.
>
>Groups of masked Jewish settlers have charged into the village,
>coming at night with
>dogs and horses, stealing sheep, hurling stones through windows and
>beating the men
>with fists and rifle butts, Palestinian residents told the Associated Press.
>
>An electricity generator has been scorched by fire, knocking out
>power to the village.
>Three large water tanks were tipped over and emptied, the residents said.
>
>Palestinians complain bitterly of land lost over the past decades of
>Mideast conflict.
>Yanun is believed to the first time in recent years that
>Palestinians have abandoned an
>entire village due to the conflict.
>
>Confrontations between Jewish settlers and Palestinians often fall
>into a murky legal
>area, with the IDF, the police and the military's civil
>administration in the territories all
>being involved to varying degrees.
>
>An IDF spokesman, who did not want his name used, said soldiers try to prevent
>conflict between settlers and Palestinians, but that forces are
>primarily in the area to
>protect Israelis from attacks by Palestinian militants.
>
>Spokesmen for the police and the civil administration could not be
>reached on Friday
>evening, the beginning of the Jewish sabbath. Phone calls to the
>Yesha Settler's
>Council, an umbrella group for the settlers, also went unanswered Friday.
>
>The nearby Jewish settlement of Itamar, about 10 kilometers (six
>miles) to the west,
>was attacked by a Palestinian gunman on June 20. Five Israelis were
>killed and eight
>were injured before the gunman was shot dead.
>
>The residents of Yanun have not been linked to that attack or other violence.
>
>Yanun is an isolated valley hamlet flanked by two illegal outposts
>on nearby hilltops.
>The nearest settlement approved by the Israeli government is Itamar.
>
>In Yanun, the men cried as they got into two cars to leave for the
>larger nearby village
>of Aqraba, where they believe there will be safety in numbers.
>They'll live with relatives
>there or move into rented apartments.
>
>"Death would be easier than leaving," Kamal Sobih said, describing
>his attachment to
>the land where generations of his family have lived. "But there is
>no choice." He said
>he often spent nights keeping watch for attackers from his windows.
>
>Ahmed Sobih, an elderly man, sat in the back seat of the one of the
>cars, an Arab
>head scarf covering his right eye. He said he lost sight in the eye
>after a beating from
>an Israeli settler.
>
>He had been tending sheep on the hillside when a stranger approached.
>Sobih,mistaking the man for someone from a neighboring Arab village,
>went to shake
>hands with the man and offer him a cigarette but was beaten with his
>own walking
>stick, he said.
>
>The village chief, Abdelatif Sobih, was the last to go. He said he's
>been attacked seven
>times and that his wife Raideh threatened to leave him if they
>didn't abandon the place.
>
>"I kept urging the people not to leave, but they did, one by one,"
>he said, crying. "They
>left me without a choice. I'm blaming my people as well (as the
>settlers) because they
>left me alone."
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