Dec. 25, 2020
Three times his house has been demolished. The last time, a few weeks ago, he tried resisting. Less than two weeks later, Border Police personnel who identified him traveling in a taxi, dragged him out of the vehicle, shoved him up against it, held his hands behind his back and proceeded to punch him.
The beating went on for a quarter of an hour, he says; he absorbed blows all over his body, but the kind that leave no visible marks. Every so often, when a car passed by, the officers let up, so no one would see them working the man over. This was their revenge for his pushing and shouting when forces of the Civil Administration, an arm of the Israeli military government in the territories, came to level his home yet again. This week he and his family were hard at work again, trying to rebuild it.