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Bruqin, Kufr alDik, Sun 1.4.12, Morning

Place: Bruqin Kufr a-Dik
Observers: Amira A., Rahel A. (reporting), Translator: Judith Green
Apr-01-2012
| Morning

 

Bruqin – Kafr ad Dik + lesson in womens' center

 

We left Rosh Ha'Ayin at 9:30 in the direction of Kfar ad Dik.  A nice day, all is green and blooming, spring.  The road was quiet and calm all the way.  The villages through which we were travelling seemed to be empty.  Children are  at school, others at work or in the house.  The shops are always closed at this hour.

In spite of the last minute notice, we found a subsitute teacher for the English lesson.  Amira volunteered to come and teach English.  There were about 8 women participating in two lessons.  After the lesson, we took two of them home and they invited us for coffee.  We met the family members, heard about their problems.  The father has not been working for a long time.  They do have 2 dunams of olive trees, where the wall is supposed to be built;  they have already been notified that their plot of land is on the western side of the wall.

We went back and forth by way of Bruqin.  Everything was quiet and calm.  No army to be seen.

  • 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.

  • 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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