Haris, Kifl Harith, Wed 11.7.12, Morning
Natanya translating.
9.45 It is already hot and the streets are almost empty.Haris
Kif'l Hareth. Here the situation is the same. We met our friend, the shopkeeper. In answer to our question he said that it had been a long time since the army had last entered the village to arrest young men at night. He explained that their village is quiet but there is one very difficult problem and that is that at night 1000s of settlers come in under guard of soldiers to pray at the “graves” of Caleb Ben Yefune and Jushua Ben Nun.
At least twice a month, about 50 days a year in the night at about 22.00 thousands of religious settlers come in, sometimes tens of thousands, We asked again and again if the Hebrew was correct and this man whom we have known for years as truthful and serious, emphasized that the numbers were as he said.
They come in on the main road of the village. They go up to the graves. Dance and sing loudly. Sometimes they bring food with them.
At about 20.00 before their arrival the soldiers come in to the village to prepare the area and this is a great nuisance.
10.30 we left and drove to Zeita to our weely activity with the women
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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Kifl Harith
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Kifl Harith
This is a Palestinian located north-west of the settler-colony town of Ariel, 18 kilometers south of the city of Nablus. It numbers 3, 206 inhabitants, as of 2007. 42% of the village lands lie in Area B, and 58% in Area C. In 1978, some hundreds of dunams of the village’s farmland was sequestered in order to found the settler-colony of Ariel – in total 5,184 dunams from the Palestinian communities of Salfit, Iscaqa, Marda, and Kifl Harith. Dozens of square kilometers were also confiscated for paving road no. 5 as well as road 505 and their buffer zones, and the Israeli electricity company’s power station. Over the years the village has suffered harassment by sometimes-armed settler-colonists, even casualties. In 1968 the army’s rabbinate ruled the maqam site Nabi Yanoun (sanctified grave of the Prophet Yanoun) is in fact the tomb of Joshua, Son of Nun. Another structure in the village, named Nabi Tul Kifl by the Palestinians, has been identified by the Israeli authorities as to the tomb of Caleb, Son of Yefuneh. These sites are located in the heart of the village, near the mosque, and at times of Jewish religious festivities and pilgrimages, the center of the village is illuminated by projectors and thousands of Jews arrive, protected by hundreds of Israeli soldiers. During such a period, a night curfew is imposed on the village and the villagers are forced to stay shut inside their homes.
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