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Observers: 
Hagit Back (reporting and photographing); Natanya Ginsburg (translating)
Nov-27-2017
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Morning

All I saw was the occupation in routine, only accompanied by the screams of the security coordinator of Kiryat Arba, who led a trip of military rabbis: Here is the murderer. That's what he called me. I held back, I am not the story, the Palestinians are suffering and yet .....

In the photo below: Federman Farm

The story of the place as it appears in the web site of Kiryat Arba: The farm was founded by singer Udi Davidi, with the help of the settlers. In 2007, after threats of demolition, the Davidi family left the place and were replaced by the Federman family. They developed the place on their own and even brought another family, Sinai Tor (the singer) and his family. In November 2008, at 1:30 AM hundreds of soldiers and a special patrol unit of the Israel Police arrived at the Federman Farm and broke into the home of the Federman and Tor families, forcibly evicted them from their homes and destroyed their homes, with all the contents. The Federman family did not give up and rebuilt the farm again and again believing in the importance of broadening the borders of Kiryat Arab and the settlement of the land of Israel.

Today: live on the farm Elisheva and Noam Federman and their children who develop the land bloom and develop it. There is a tent for events, and there are lectures and workshops in the fields of agriculture and food. There is also a therapeutic horse farm under the management of Noam Sadovsky.

Private land of Palestinians? Who cares? House demolitions are for Bedouin only. And racism is rife.

Federman farm
Federman farm
Photo: 
Hagit Back
The new weekly flier which waves on the notice boards of Kiryat Arba
The new weekly flier which waves on the notice boards of Kiryat Arba
Photo: 
Hagit Back

In the picture above: The new weekly flier which waves on the notice boards of Kiryat Arba.

In the pictures below: The military rabbis are walking. To them I am a murderer. None of them protested when the guard of the settlement said what he said. Their Lord of the Land attitude which  they radiated was irritating and outrageous.

 

 

 
The military rabbis are walking. To them I am a murderer
The military rabbis are walking. To them I am a murderer
Photo: 
Hagit Back
A military vehicle is driving with three mobile buildings
A military vehicle is driving with three mobile buildings
Photo: 
Hagit Back

The pillbox at the top of the hill of the Abu Snan neighborhood, which is in Area H1, and  which is supposed to be under Palestinian control only, boasts a new wall around it. It is far from where we are allowed to go. Therefore, the photographs are blurred. However that may be  a military vehicle is driving there with three mobile buildings. At the parking lot next to the Cave of the Patriarchs another three are waiting.

 A large military base inside Palestinian Hebron

What will be the end of us?