Bruqin, Haris, Kufr alDik
Hars, Brukin, Kufr a-Dik
09:00 We left from the Rosh Ha’ayin train station.
09:30 We arrived in Hars. The director of the club wasn’t there; its door was closed. The women waited outside. Very soon a young woman holding a key appeared and we could begin the lesson. We started with questions and answers using the vocabulary they’d already learned. Then, using a text about a birthday, we practiced the present tense of verb, male and female, singular and plural. The women were glad to discover that the verb endings are regular; most were able to construct sentences using the four forms with additional verbs. The lesson ended with a speed exercise naming parts of the body, all of us moving in unison to the song “Yemina, yemina, smola, smola” [“Right, right, left, left” – a Hebrew children’s song], putting everyone in a good mood.
The tour:
09:40 We drive to Kufr a-Dik and then to Brukin. Four military vehicles at the village entrance – two jeeps and two command cars, which soon leave toward Salfit. A group of Palestinians working at the junction report that eight male and one female soldier walked toward Salfit this morning and didn’t come back. They assumed the vehicles went to pick them up, but that wasn’t confirmed because none of them were seen again.
10:45 We drove via Ariel to Kifl Hars. The roadblock preventing anyone from entering or leaving the village has been removed and replaced by two military jeeps parked at the entrance next to the open checkpoint.
11:30 Back to Hars.
12:00 Back to Rosh Ha’ayin. No military presence anywhere along the route.
Bruqin
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Bruqin is a village of about 4,000 residents in Salfit County. 600 dunams of the village's land were expropriated in 1984 for the establishment of the Barkan industrial zone. Small sewage treatment plant This area is regularly flooded. The sewage flows into Baruchin and pollutes the streets of the village. In 1999, the Bruchin settlement was established. The barrier of separation and harassment Settlers keep the villagers away from 30% of their lands (about 4,000 dunams). About half of the village lands are in Area C, on which Israel prevents construction.
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Haris
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Haris
The village has 4,500 people and they have 5,000 dunams of land. The entrance to the village is blocked and opened arbitrarily, without informing the residents.The village has a seasonal checkpoint that blocks the road to the agricultural land and this checkpoint opens once a year! 2,500-3,000 dunams were stolen from the village in order to build the settlements of Revava and Netafim, which are located west of Haris.
The center of the village is Area B and around Area C. The population grows but the occupation does not permit new construction in Area C.
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Kufr a-Dik
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Kufr a-Dik This is a Palestinian village in the Salfit district of the West Bank, located 8 kilometers east of the Green Line. The village population numbers 4,494 (as of 2007). 14.5% of the village were included in Area B (supposedly under Palestinian civil control) and 86% categorized as Area C – meaning both civil and military Israeli control, which severely affects the state of the village and its inhabitants. Over the years Israel has robbed 1,448 dunams from the village’s farmlands for the sake of building the settler-colonies of Penuel, Alei Zahav, Yoezer, Har Alei Zahav, and the industrial zone next to Penuel. Lands were also sequestered for the paving of Road 446 whose length stretches over 4 kilometers and includes a buffer zone 75-meters wide on both its sides. Following the paving of the road, the village has suffered not only landgrab but home demolitions and the destruction of water wells as well. Rates of unemployment in both the private and the public sectors reach 60%. In the years 2010-2013 creative activity was held by members of MachsomWatch and women of the village. For further information: http://vprofile.arij.org/salfit/pdfs/vprofile/Kafr%20ad%20Dik_tp_en.pdf
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