Al-Farisiya: The soldiers are still in the villages, and the villagers do not go out to work.
Protective presence at Al-Farisiya, morning shift.
The flock is at Ein a-Sakut with two accompaniers. I am with the wife and children at their home.
Due to the fighting in Tubas and Tamun, there is no school for the second day running. The soldiers are still in the villages, and the villagers do not go out to work.
The children pass the morning with the games I brought and the day is unhampered. No colonists, no soldiers.
Today, a court in Jerusalem sat over a charge brought by a Palestinian from Al-Farisiya who requested that a settler from a nearby outpost – who regularly harasses them – be ordered to keep his distance. The court ruled a distancing of 30 meters from the site. Sounds ridiculous, but this is still a small success. The settler who harasses them will not be able to do so at least in the near future.
This is the bedroom of the volunteers at Ein a-Sakut. One can watch the stars. The moon. Listen to the sounds of nature.
Saturday, noon, the Gallery space of Minshar Art School, Tel Aviv:
In the gallery space, the house of Eid Sliman is being built. It was demolished in Umm Al-Kheir a few weeks ago. The structure is a copy of the original. Not finished yet. A talk with Eid on Zoom. At the end of the exhibition the house will be demolished. Without a bulldozer…
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Al-Farisiya / 'Ein a-sakut
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Al-Farisiya / 'Ein a-sakutA community of shepherds in the Jordan Valley opposite the settlement of "Rotem". Making a living from grazing sheep, the residents are exposed to harassment, abuse and theft from settlers who come to them from outposts and settlements in the area, and their grazing area is shrinking due to settler takeovers, fire zones and declared nature reserves.Machsom Watch companies participate in shepherd escort activities and provide a 24/7 protective presence, and there is continuous and warm contact with the community.
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Jordan Valley
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Jordan Valley The Jordan Valley is the eastern strip of the West Bank. Its area consists of almost a third of the West Bank area. About 10,000 settlers live there, about 65,000 Palestinian residents in the villages and towns. In addition, about 15,000 are scattered in small shepherd communities. These communities are living in severe distress because of two types of harassment: the military declaring some of their living areas, as fire zones, evicting them for long hours from their residence to the scorching heat of the summer and the bitter cold of the winter. The other type is abuse by rioters who cling to the grazing areas of the shepherd communities, and the declared fire areas (without being deported). The many groundwaters in the Jordan Valley belong to Mekorot and are not available to Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley. The Palestinians bring water to their needs in high-cost followers.
May-10-2025A Shabbat treat for settlers: evicting Palestinian shepherds from their homes
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Umm al-Kheir
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Umm al-Kheir
A Palestinian village in the southern Hebron governorate, populated by five families. The Palestinian residents settled there decades ago, after Israel expelled them from the Arad desert and purchased the land from the residents of the Palestinian village of Yatta. The village suffers from the violence of nearby Carmel settlers, from water shortage and is subject to frequent demolition of buildings by the Civil Administration.
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