Jayyus - Distress due to lack of livelihood

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Daniela G’ transfers a telephone report. Translator: Charles K.

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May-14-2020

Morning

N. is in a difficult situation because he can’t make a living.

Regarding the checkpoints – unexpected problems sometimes arise, but there’s been an improvement as far returning to his village is concerned.

Yesterday evening he had a problem with an Israeli checkpoint when leaving Qalqilya. He said he waited online for an hour and five minutes, and when his turn arrived he went through without being inspected. It was a flying checkpoint whose purpose was unclear.

On the other hand, now it’s no longer necessary to enter his village through ‘Azzun when he arrives from the west. The Palestinian Authority financed a new road from Nabi Ilyas directly to the village entrance, next to the southern agricultural gate. The trip takes about five minutes. The principal benefit is, of course, that he no longer must go through the entrance to ‘Azzun, which is often problematic.

Everyone is healthy, his family and the whole village.

Ramadan Kareem.

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.