Mufaqara - "They want us to give up and leave here, but I'm not like the people of Zenuta, I stay here."

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Observers: 
Michal (watching, reporting and photographing) with Muhammad. Translator: Natanya
Dec-17-2024
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Morning
Jewish Terror
ההתנחלות החדשה ממערב, בדרך למצפה אביגיל
מופקרה - יותר קרוב, יותר ברור

This time again in Mufaqara.

The Hamamde family is surrounded on all sides by new settlers, not only Mitzpe Avigail to the west and Maon and Havat Maon to the east, they constantly suffer from threats, harassment. On the way to them, the access roads are blocked and you can only get there via A-Tuwani.

On Highway 317, you can see that all the access roads to Samu’ are blocked.

The same goes for the entrances to Wadi Shahash and Imnainzil.

The entrances to Yatta are also either blocked by dirt and stones or by concrete blocks with yellow gatesinfo-icon.

You can see the constant struggle between the local residents and the army. They keep opening roadblocks just to get there and live, and the authorities keep blocking them.

Fadel is desperate and exhausted. He says that two weeks ago, a settler stole a car from a man from Dirat and brought it to the Maon farm. The owner of the car called the police. This time they arrived and did their job, chasing the thief. The thief fled and left the car. The police both caught him and returned the car to its owner.

In retaliation, three settlers came on an ATV from Maon, masked, with two others wearing IDF uniforms, and began attacking Fadel and others, pulling out a gun, threatening and shouting: Go, go!

Fadel called the police and when the police arrived, the settler tried to tell the policeman that Fadel was attacking him. The policeman replied: You came to him, not him to you and ordered the settlers to leave, and that was that.

Fadel returned safely this time. This time the police did their job.

The new settler, whose name is Avihai, has various assistants with him and they, as mentioned, surround the Hamamde family and are constantly moving from side to side on his land, cursing in Arabic and making obscene gestures.

"I don't talk to them. I don't respond, but they are improving their Arabic a lot."

He doesn't have a camerainfo-icon. His request for a camera has not been answered so far. When we left him, we saw that cameras had been installed in the area around him, but he personally doesn't have one.

He also tells about a complaint filed against him by settler Avihai, about threats and curses. Then they told him to come to the Kiryat Arba police station and since then he is not allowed to go down to his pastures with his sheep and work his plots. He has also a security prevention. So has his son from the beginning of the war.

"They want us to despair and leave here, but I am not like the people of Zanuta, I am staying here."

These sentences are repeated everywhere. Zanuta became a symbol of surrender and concession. Although the court ruled that they were allowed to return to their village, they did not return because the ruling that allowed it forbade them from cultivating their land.

Such Israeli "justice."

"Inshallah the war will end," says Fadel.

But the settlers do not want to, they have not finished expelling all of us yet."