They Take It All

The farmer Abdul Hamid still lives with the military base as his neighbor. Two of the houses of his relatives close to his and a small brick factory, are demolished. His house was on the list. But he has lived for some years in USA and carries an US passport, so for the moment he can stay. But they have stolen a lot of his land where his sheep used to pasture.

A village to be demolished

In Bruqin village in Salfeet governorat north of the Palestinian administration center Ramallah 19 houses are demolished and 100 more have been noticed of demolition. The line between area C and B devides the village and some of the houses. Area C is totally under Israeli administration while area B has a, on the paper, joint administration with the Palestinian Authorities. The neighbors of the village are Israeli colonies and an Israeli military base. Israel is (always) planning to expand their territory, and this area is in their plans.

Olive trees and sheep

At the other side of the village the farmer and teacher Ziad Barakat has planted 100 olive trees. They are now 10 years old. One day in october military vehicles came with soldiers. They told him to remove the trees and a shed he has for his sheep. They are planning a road here to a colony on the next hilltop. His family has owned this land for many generations, and he can prove it with Turkish and Jordanian documents. Still he now has gone through two trials for many months, he has got no verdict. Other people waiting for a verdict from the Israeli courts have experienced that their homes have been demolished while waiting.

Colonies all around

In the next village Kufr al-Dik mr. Fares Deik takes me to an ancient Roman ruin in the middle of his land where he groves olives and potatoes. In the distance, but not far away, we can see the old Palestinian land occupied in 1948 with Tel Aviv and other cities at the Mediterranean shores. All around him new outposts are being built as a part of the expansion of the big Ariel colony. Only on one side an unfinished settlement stands with commenced concrete houses after construction was stopped in the 2000-intifada (turmoil), but everywhere else machines are preparing new settlements or expansion of the existing ones.

Historical place and antiques

 Israel has stolen antique objects from the site and try to make it one of their historical places. It is not.

He has another land behind the new colonies, but he can only reach it by travelling all around the settlements and the hills.

This area is heavily affected by the Israeli occupation and annexation of what is left of Palestine, but the international community is not reacting against the Israeli genocide and crimes against the Palestinian people and their country.
Instead they support this criminal regime by funding it, with weapons, and military cooperation.

 Genocide

One of the independent criteria for decide what is genocide, is:

...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

    (a) Killing members of the group;
    (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
    (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
    (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
    (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

— Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2