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Apr. 27, 2021 6:43 PM
In April and May 1967, about ten people living in the southern West Bank village of Jinba, then part of the Jordanian kingdom, were summoned to the Jordanian police station. They weren’t suspected of doing anything wrong: quite the contrary. They were summoned to receive compensation for their houses, which had been damaged or destroyed in the Israeli assault of November 13, 1966, which was also directed against Khirbet al-Markaz and mainly against the village Samu.
In April 1967, Ziad Makhamra was 10 years old. Too small to go with his father to the police station, but big enough to know that Jordanian police officers came to their village and met with people who reported damage due to the Israeli assault. He was also mature enough to be able to recall today that his father and other fathers went to the nearby police station, Al-Sayfer (that building still stands but is now within the settlement
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A field researcher for Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem was investigated and warned by the Shin Bet Security service last week.
The security service coordinator, who identified himself as Captain Eid, told the researcher, Nasser Nawaj’ah, that he was “making trouble and threatening the army.” Captain Eid mentioned in this regard the incident involving Harun Abu Aram of the village al-Rakiz, who is lying paralyzed in hospital after a solider shot him in the neck because he tried to stop the army from seizing a neighbor’s generator.
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Harun Abu Aram of the village al-Rakiz in hospitalCredit: Picture supplied by the Abu Aram family
Palestinians sift through the rubble after Israeli forces demolished their home in the hamlet of Khalet al-Daba, in the occupied West Bank, June 17, 2019. (Wissam Hashlamon/Flash90)
It was 7 a.m. on Tuesday, and there were new messages in the WhatsApp group for Masafer Yatta in south Hebron, the area where I live, which is under Israeli occupation.
At first, people were wishing each other good morning. A minute later, a friend from the nearby community of Umm al-Kheir sent a voice message to the group: “Bulldozers! And army jeeps! And white cars belonging to the Civil Administration. They are on their way to Masafer Yatta.”
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January 1, 2021. My aunt Rasmiya Mohammad, 75, began her year with the news that her grandson, my cousin Harun Abu Aram, had been seriously wounded during an Israeli army raid in the Tiwani village in the South Hebron Hills. It was his birthday, and he was turning 24.
A few hours later, and more than 5,550 miles away, I started my morning in Brooklyn by calling my mother, Rasmiya’s younger sister. I wanted to wish her a happy 2021 and share my hope that this year would be more kind to all of us. Instead, she asked, “Did you see what happened to Harun?” I didn’t need to look far to find out, as footage of Israeli apartheid forces, backed by US money and might, shooting Harun
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