Jayyus - no way of obtaining a livelihood

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Jayyus

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Updates during Corona

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Daniela G’ transfers a telephone report, Hanna K' (translator)

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Apr-6-2020

Afternoon

Best regards to everybody from N. from Jayyus.

12 persons crowd in his house, everybody is healthy, and so are the people in the village. He doesn’t know anybody who is sick.

All the entrances to the village are shut and blocked, just the main one enables traffic, but just for holders of an entrance permit.

The is no way of obtaining a livelihood since workers aged over 50 were not allowed anymore to enter Israel, but he himself continues voluntarily to coordinate the transportation of sick persons on their way to recovery. Yes, he says, there are still people who travel. There are astonishing Israeli volunteers, and just now they were joined by a new woman volunteer.

What will happen during the Ramadan, I ask. It will be much more difficult, he answers. The fast will take place as usual, of course, but how to feed everybody at its end, this is a big problem.

He sends regards to all our members, especially those he knows and appreciates, and sends us all wishes for a happy holiday and much health.

Why do we take the trouble to report in Corona times as well?

Because democracy’s watchdogs have fallen asleep on their own watch, so Israeli citizens have no idea what is actually happening in the Occupied Territories, especially now.

Day and night, Israeli soldiers (as the State’s emissaries) help extreme settler-colonists take the law into their own hands, unhampered. They do not stop even in days of a raging pandemic and do not hesitate to harm Palestinians – their bodies, property, and sources of livelihood.

Unceasing harassment of the weakened Palestinian population inflicts psychological harm as well. All – from babies through and including the elderly and the ill – are open prey to Jewish violence and terrorism which the settler-colonists are only too eager to exert.

We of MachsomWatch will not cease to report, certainly not now during these Corona times and under the threat of annexation, about the settlers’ increased rampages, those who hurry to set facts on the ground helped by the Israeli army.

Israel rules the West Bank, and by force of the Geneva Convention, article no. 27, it is committed to enforcing law and order there. The inhabitants of these Occupied Territories have the legal right “to decent treatment of their body and dignity, and should be especially protected against any act of violence”.

Ironically, this is not at all upheld.

Nor shall we cooperate with the commonplace ignoring of the Palestinian people’s suffering, and with the Israeli public’s indifference to it. We shall continue to follow up closely and report the goings-on in the West Bank, in its villages and encampments.

No one should be able to say ‘We knew nothing, we heard nothing’

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Jayyus

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Jayyus Village. Some of its lands were separated from the village when the separation barrier was first built. The wall is very close to the village itself and access to a large part of its lands was exproptiated. After a petition to the High Court that was convinced that there was no security ground for the route of the barrier, the barrier was moved and some of the lands were returned to the village.