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• Jalud

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  • Jalud
    A Palestinian village, about 15 km south of Nablus: to the south are the settlements of Shiloh, Shvut-Rachel, and another settlement. Ge'ulat _Zion, is about to be built on its lands. The violent outposts of Esh Kodesh, Kida, Yeshuv Hda'at, Ahaya, and Adei Ad. Some outposts were established on Jalud lands, and are about to receive kosher. The village is planning to fight for its land.
    85% of the village's lands are in area C, and its residents are anxious that they may be taken from them. In fact, throughout the years of occupation, thousands of dunams of agricultural land were expropriated from Jalud and the surrounding villages for military and settlement purposes. These are lands that were cultivated for generations by Palestinians and were taken from them without the possibility of resistance.
    Since the death of the 16-year-old boy from the hills, Ahuvia Sendak, in December 2020, during a police chase near the settlement of Kochav Hashar, there has been a significant increase in the number of violent attacks by settlers, which have already become routine all over the West Bank. The attacks include breaking into the village mainly at night, setting fire to vehicles, smashing windows and windshields, demolishing construction sites and stealing equipment, shooting with live fire, blocking roads, and more. In recent years, IDF soldiers have been backing and sponsoring these riots.

  • Jalud A Palestinian village, about 15 km south of Nablus: to the south are the settlements of Shiloh, Shvut-Rachel, and another settlement. Ge'ulat _Zion, is about to be built on its lands. The violent outposts of Esh Kodesh, Kida, Yeshav Ya'at, Ahaya, and Adei Ad. Some outposts were established on Jalud lands, and are about to receive kosher. The village is planning to fight for its land. 85% of the village's lands are in area C, and its residents are anxious that they may be taken from them. In fact, throughout the years of occupation, thousands of dunams of agricultural land were expropriated from Jalud and the surrounding villages for military and settlement purposes. These are lands that were cultivated for generations by Palestinians and were taken from them without the possibility of resistance. Since the death of the 16-year-old boy from the hills, Ahuvia Sendak, in December 2020, during a police chase near the settlement of Kochav Hashar, there has been a significant increase in the number of violent attacks by settlers, which have already become routine all over the West Bank. The attacks include breaking into the village mainly at night, setting fire to vehicles, smashing windows and windshields, demolishing construction sites and stealing equipment, shooting with live fire, blocking roads, and more. In recent years, IDF soldiers have been backing and sponsoring these riots.

• Qusra

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  • Qusra

    This village is located in the Nablus district, about 28 kilometers south-east of the city. Its population numbers 4,310 as of 2007 (according to the Palestinian census). After the Oslo Accords, 50% - most of the village’s built-up area – was categorized Area B, and about 70 homes as well as the rest of its land are inside Area C.

    In 1983, 177 dunams of the village lands were confiscated by Israel to build a ‘Nahal’ stronghold, turned civilian in 1985 and named Migdalim settler-colony, east of the village itself. To the north-east is a gas station and a leather plant, as well as a studio producing wood ware, all of which are a branch of the settler-colony. Dozens of additional farmland were confiscated from Qussra and Jaloud in order to erect the settler-colonies Esh Qodesh and Ahiya.

    “The villagers point to the settler-colonists of Esh Qodesh as the source of their problem. Qussra villagers were forbidden to tend their lands located a kilometer away from the Esh Qodesh fence, and about 20 meters from the area declared military zone. What about the ‘legitimate’ plots? Their crops are regularly destroyed by the settler-colonists. Fires break out in wheat fields, olive trees are cut down, wells are destroyed – these have all become routine events. In spite of all of this, the head of the local council sees the Israeli army as the main source. He says that the settler-colonists could not have harassed the villagers without the army backing them up…”

    (From a MW report, August 3, 2015)

    In 2001, the Israeli army evacuated its intelligence base “Kida”. In 2003, the settler outpost Kida was established, a quick attempt was made to evict the newcomers, but they were eventually allowed to remain.

    For further information: http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/vprofile/Qusra_vp_en.pdf