Zanuta - the Palestinian residents return to their villaga after the High Court's decision

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Meitar - looks deserted. About ten cars and one bus are parked in the parking lot, a sign that few workers are allowed to pass.

We went to check the return of the residents of Zanuta to their village after the High Court ruled that their deportation and the destruction of the village were illegal. From the road you can see several cars on the hill next to the houses, and people around them. At the entrance to the village of the destroyed school, the roof was pulled down and the trees were cut down. Meanwhile, the foreign volunteers who came are living their and helping to build and to protect them against the settlers.

Suddenly a settler on an ATV emerges from the road. He goes up the dirt road, makes a turn among the ruins of the houses, the residents gather around him, he goes back down and disappears in the wadi. A few minutes later he appears again from the wadi, but this time a police car is standing on the dirt road, a policeman and a soldier are holding back the ATV.

In the meantime, the Rabbis for Human Rights and other smart cars arrive in the village. One of the residents explains to us that soon the head of the Regional Council will also arrive and dignitaries from the Palestinian Authority who are coming to strengthen the residents who are returning to their settlement. We didn't stay to see, but when we returned at the end of the shift, we saw the police car guarding the entrance to the village, and many people gathered at the top of a hill among the destroyed village houses.

Route 317

On the hills on both sides of the road, the settlers' observation booths appeared. hThe sides of the road were fenced off and thus the settlers encroached on the villagers’ land and made it difficult for them and their herds to go to and from the villages.