חבלה
Food for thought: The occupation didn’t start in 1967.
After we watched the opening (with a delay of 5 minutes) and the closing of the CP and learned that the winter holidays at the Palestinian schools last until the 30th of January, 2017 (we saw quite a few young children accompanying their parents when leaving the CP and when returning from the fields to Habla), a man approached us near the plant nurseries verging on road no. 55. He is from Habla, 61 years old. When we asked him how come his Hebrew is so excellent he answered that he has been working in Israel nearly 50 (!) years, a true builder of the country. In the course of these years his livelihood has been reduced and his present economic situation is dire. We learned from him that his family stems from Harish. In 1948 his father and other family members were chased away\left - he didn’t explicitly say how his family has been forced to leave its home – and arrived at Habla. A few members of his family, including his aunt, remained at Harish. When Kibutz Horshim was established in the early fifties of the last century, the remaining villagers were driven out to Jaljuliya.
The man’s cousin is sick and since he has a permit to enter Israel, he is on his was to visit her.