South Hebron Hills
While on the road Nasser phoned from Susiya and told us that the IDF was preparing roadblocks on all dirt roads entering the settlements along Road 317.
And everything is still in place so that our vehicle, cannot travel there.
After two weeks that Lakia wwas in closure
Muhammad returned and we were able to do a shift. Because the day before there had been demonstrations in Hebron we preferred not to try and enter. We decided to see how the Jadallah family living in Ifigigis was doing, A slightly scattered settlement in the hills after Khursa which stands in the middle between the two settlements Negohot A and Negohot B. They tell of the sounds of development in Negohot b. We looked and noticed the heavy tools working there. It seems to them and to us that they are trying to pave a road which will join the two Israeli settlements. In our previous report we sent photos.
There the work was stopped for the time being because the Palestinians organized and placed a tent that blocks the road. Since water cisterns were also dug, the civil administration issued demolition orders for everything.
As stated, there is a clear trend.
The concern, of course, is that they also want to expand the settlements and create a territorial continuum between the two. All this when the radio promises that Israel has agreed to freeze the expansion of settlements in exchange for a peace agreement with the emirates.
Were it not for the Corona we could have followed this up and verified what is really happening there.
The family also tells us that their father was again fined 5000 shekel because he tried to enter Israel to work when it was claimed that he was sick with Corona. Where do they get 10,000 shekels to pay? They show a certificate from a local doctor writing that no one has the virus and they showed it to the Civil Administration but there has been no response.
We asked if they could not get help from the PA but there is no cooperation between Israel and the PA now. We suggested calling the Physicians for Human Rights. The daughter says she has a phone and she knows whom to contact and she will try. This is the only possibility in the crazy situation that exists today.
The man is old and at an age where he can enter without a permit to work and yet difficulties are placed in his path from every direction.
And apart from evil and autism, there is nothing good happening here.
All the while, the noise of the bulldozers continues.
Hopefully in the picture you can see something despite the distance and our fear of going too close after the last time when we only approached Hagai's farm and immediately the security official rushed towards us roaring with the aid of a megaphone that there is a ban on entering private territory .... the wild west.
In the pictures the home of the family.