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[00:00:00] We found a suitable solution for our Palestinian people who
[00:00:04] deserve all respect because they proved in
[00:00:08] that there is warmth, there is reassurance in my this war that
[00:00:09] yard, in they are up to the responsibility and that they love life
[00:00:13] and adore life and do not want to fight
[00:00:16] anyone, but rather want to establish their state and take their rights.
[00:00:20] Gaza will remain Gaza, and God willing, it will be rebuilt,
[00:00:24] God willing. How can I explain about someone who
[00:00:27] lived 26 years in the same place
[00:00:31] here? I mean, I'm here. My life is here.
[00:00:34] I breathe in this place.
[00:00:55] I put the food in
[00:01:16] I mean, I walked almost 5 kilometers to get 15
[00:01:20] loaves of bread for one person. We hope that the bakeries
[00:01:23] will open and the crisis will be resolved,
[00:01:30] They came to see and even the details in and normal life will return to Gaza.
[00:01:38] So we work with very limited capabilities, and there are also missing things
[00:01:42] that we are not able to provide. They are available, but there are no spare parts
[00:01:46] for them. This machine is running, meaning, how
[00:01:49] can I tell you, with different motors and belts
[00:01:52] than its own. We are patching it up so that we can work because everything
[00:01:56] we have is worn out, and we are trying to manage our affairs by all means to continue.
[00:02:46] We agreed on
[00:02:58] God, we succeeded in this
[00:03:14] and I continued with this
[00:03:22] wake up in the mornings for the rooms and
[00:03:23] and I take care of
[00:03:46] the governor, and we took it to
[00:03:50] them. This
[00:04:32] renovating the rooms,
[00:04:38] I stood by my husband from the very beginning of this I didn't change anything, of course. I kept it all in
[00:05:55] Welcome, dear viewers,
[00:05:58] to a new episode of the Sectors program.
[00:06:02] In this episode, we will talk about a project idea
[00:06:05] that started small and simple,
[00:06:08] but it later carried an idea that embodies
[00:06:11] civilization, history, heritage, and identity
[00:06:15] for our people. There are places that we don't just
[00:06:18] enter, but we feel that we have moved to another
[00:06:21] time. In this house that dates back to
[00:06:24] 1820, its owner chose this place,
[00:06:28] the Bread House, to give the place a new life
[00:06:32] by renovating it and transforming it into a different
[00:06:34] project that preserved all the old details, its belongings,
[00:06:38] its furniture, its tools,
[00:06:41] the water. To learn more about the details of this place,
[00:06:45] please stay with us.
[00:07:52] My husband and I started the project.
[00:07:55] I started by cleaning
[00:07:58] the rooms. I cook. I didn't like
[00:08:01] having someone else come and cook
[00:08:04] or clean. I like to work with
[00:08:07] my hands, and thank
[00:08:10] matter. We thank God. My food, I don't want to say,
[00:08:14] I mean, one doesn't say
[00:08:17] that, but my food was delicious. The group that
[00:08:20] came to eat Arabic food would say
[00:08:24] it's very delicious,
[00:08:26] , and thank God, we succeeded. As for the rooms,
[00:08:30] I also cleaned
[00:08:33] I do the cleaning in the yard and everything,
[00:08:36] the plants and water the plants with my own hands. I don't
[00:08:39] like anyone interfering with my work.
[00:08:42] I mean, I feel at peace, and I feel that everything
[00:08:46] I do is in my hands, and thank God, I succeeded in this matter.
[00:08:50] They told me to cook
[00:08:52] and such. The guests who come to sleep with us
[00:08:56] said, "Do you cook, Um Tawfiq?" I told them, "Yes, I cook if you'd like. I'll cook
[00:08:59] for you." So in the end, I started my initial
[00:09:03] work because we usually when we accommodate
[00:09:06] people,
[00:09:09] they get a meal with breakfast.
[00:09:13] So they tell us, "And do you make lunch, Um Tawfiq? Do you make dinner?" So I told them, "Yes,
[00:09:17] if you want, I'll cook for you." From that point,
[00:09:20] we started. My
[00:09:23] cooking project succeeded, thank God,
[00:09:26] especially during the month of Ramadan
[00:09:28] and the months of Eid al-Fitr and Eid
[00:09:32] al-Adha. Many people would come and stay with us
[00:09:35] and book. So they would have breakfast with us
[00:09:39] and in the evening they would have suhoor with us and then go to the
[00:09:43] mosque. So the atmosphere was very nice.
[00:09:46] And thank God, everything was good. There was a great difficulty when
[00:09:51] project, regarding the renovation, regarding
[00:09:55] the cleaning, regarding,
[00:09:58] everything. So it was difficult for us, but
[00:10:01] thank God, we got through it. My husband and I, we were
[00:10:05] hand in hand. Thank God, things became good. They
[00:10:09] felt like they were in their own home. They didn't feel like they were in a hotel.
[00:10:13] They say, "We feel like we are at home. We feel
[00:10:16] comfortable with you." Sometimes,
[00:10:20] they even complain about their private
[00:10:24] matters. They tell us about them, meaning
[00:10:27] they open their hearts to us. They feel
[00:10:34] the house. And they were happy and said, "We hope
[00:10:38] to come back again."
[00:10:40] Even if they didn't come back to sleep, if they passed by
[00:10:44] , they would knock on my door and come in, "We want to drink a cup of coffee
[00:10:48] from you, Um Tawfiq." I mean, this is worth the world
[00:10:51] and everything in it. There is love, there is
[00:10:55] familiarity between us, not just, for example, "Go to sleep
[00:10:58] and leave." No, no, it's a matter of them feeling
[00:11:02] warmth with us, like a family. They feel, they say,
[00:11:06] the place, especially in the mornings when we drink a cup
[00:11:09] of coffee with the chirping of birds,
[00:11:13] we feel like we are in our home. Thank God.
[00:11:17] When I cook,
[00:11:20] the old pots or dishes because we
[00:11:23] preserve heritage.
[00:11:28] My kitchen is small and
[00:11:31] I cook traditional dishes that are known all
[00:11:35] over the world. I mean, I cook dishes like
[00:11:38] Maqluba, Mulukhiyah, Mansaf,
[00:11:41] Mahashi, Shishbarak.
[00:11:44] These are the traditional dishes that are well-known.
[00:11:48] So when a customer comes, they enjoy these
[00:11:50] dishes with their taste, because
[00:11:55] they feel the old times. I wish
[00:11:58] to build another room,
[00:12:01] to make another room and a kitchen, because we have space to
[00:12:05] make another room, kitchen, and bathroom. But may God
[00:12:08] help us. You know, the
[00:12:12] time we are in is difficult.
[00:12:30] The house, my dear lady, we live here.
[00:12:34] My wife, my children, and I. This house was about
[00:12:38] to be sold. Many people came to buy it,
[00:12:41] but they couldn't because they saw it as a ruin
[00:12:44] and neglected.
[00:12:47] It was abandoned and closed for over 40 years.
[00:12:50] This house was abandoned. We searched for people to
[00:12:54] buy it. Because I couldn't buy it because
[00:12:57] the tenant was there. In the end, my dear lady,
[00:13:00] they came. I told
[00:13:03] my friend who mortgaged it to me, I told him, "If I mortgage it to you,
[00:13:07] will it work?" He said, "Yes, my man, the mortgage will work with you."
[00:13:11] a certain mechanism, thank God, and we bought this whole house.
[00:13:14] We bought it. It took 13 years for me to
[00:13:18] renovate it while I was working as a school bus driver.
[00:13:22] Every month, my car was destroyed during the invasion.
[00:13:25] 40 days it was crushed during the invasion of the
[00:13:28] Church of the Nativity. And thank God for everything.
[00:13:32] We kept renovating it every three months. I would go to schools and buy
[00:13:36] two bags of cement here, two bags there. I would renovate little by little.
[00:13:39] My friends would come and help me with it. When I was afraid to open them,
[00:13:43] I went to the governor and told him, "I bought a house, and it's
[00:13:47] legal, but I can't enter the rooms. I'm afraid there might be something
[00:13:51] in there, something you can't know about,
[00:13:55] like insects or
[00:13:57] something." And these are the pictures. Look
[00:14:01] at them. He came with the inspection, but he said, "No, you are not allowed
[00:14:04] to open it. The civil defense must open it."
[00:14:07] He gave me a letter from
[00:14:11] the civil defense. The civil defense came, all respect to
[00:14:15] was when we first bought it,
[00:14:19] in 2000. The civil defense came, and thank God,
[00:14:23] we started. We cleaned everything with the help of the Bethlehem municipality,
[00:14:26] of course. We sent them a letter, and the Bethlehem municipality inspection
[00:14:30] came and inspected the site, inspected everything. They brought a municipal truck
[00:14:34] and closed the street. This is a public nuisance; it's
[00:14:38] not right. And thank God, they took
[00:14:41] it all away. All respect to the Bethlehem municipality.
[00:14:44] At that time, little by little, we started with one room, two rooms, three rooms.
[00:14:48] We started them little by little, and thank God, we fixed all
[00:14:51] the issues. We filled them and everything. Then we started
[00:14:57] the windows. We fixed the windows as much as we could.
[00:15:02] the original, old heritage. Everything was good.
[00:15:05] I thought maybe the children would live in it. When I saw tourism booming in Bethlehem,
[00:15:09] we had strong tourism, I thought, "Why don't I make a guesthouse
[00:15:13] and an Arabic restaurant, a traditional
[00:15:16] Arabic restaurant, because this is our heritage?" So, by God, I took it
[00:15:19] and opened it. I started doing it little
[00:15:23] by little, and thank God, it opened. Even I
[00:15:26] made it,
[00:15:28] and we made it, and we thank God. But may God bring peace and
[00:15:32] work, because we haven't enjoyed it yet, because the Italians
[00:15:36] from the Franciscans came to buy the house and made it a guesthouse.
[00:15:40] We told him, "We want to work with you. I mean, you benefit, and we want
[00:15:43] to work." He said, "My man, breakfast and food are with you." We told
[00:15:47] him, "Keep us in mind." We started providing breakfast for anyone who comes
[00:15:51] to them, tourists. We provide breakfast for them. Groups come
[00:15:54] for lunch and so on. We provide lunch for them. So these are affiliated
[00:15:58] with the Franciscans, and we started with them. Thank God, but
[00:16:02] then came the story of Corona.
[00:16:05] It set us back. Then came the story of the war in Gaza. Also,
[00:16:09] we didn't breathe properly. And now we have the story
[00:16:13] of Iran. I mean, until now, we don't know when
[00:16:16] we will be able to taste this grape, because we all want to taste
[00:16:20] it. We want to taste it. We've been 13 years and we haven't
[00:16:23] tasted it. I mean, since 2000, we haven't even been able to
[00:16:27] taste a single grape. I mean, when he came and said, "There
[00:16:31] is, there is lunch for 15
[00:16:34] priests." The Franciscans. We said, "Welcome
[00:16:37] to them." I said, "These priests will surely bring other
[00:16:41] people." And we work. They came
[00:16:44] for lunch. He said, "What do you want to cook?" I told them, "Whatever you want." They
[00:16:47] themselves asked for Maqluba.
[00:16:51] They themselves asked for Maqluba. We made them
[00:16:54] Maqluba with salads and everything arranged. They sat and enjoyed it.
[00:16:58] They started taking pictures, and taking pictures of me, and taking pictures of them.
[00:17:00] Um Tawfiq. They were happy. After
[00:17:04] two weeks, two more priests came.
[00:17:07] the place
[00:17:10] from over there. They came to see the place because of what they heard from their
[00:17:14] colleagues about how the place was. And thank
[00:17:17] God, we started. Omar ibn al-Khattab Mosque
[00:17:20] is here. Listen to the beautiful sound of the
[00:17:24] Adhan. The Church of the Nativity.
[00:17:28] What more blessed place could there be? The market
[00:17:31] is next to you. The municipality is next to you. The police are next to you.
[00:17:35] Taxis are next to you. Manger Square is next to you. Everything
[00:17:38] is available. Everything is around you.
[00:17:41] To leave this area and go live, for example, in
[00:17:45] an area outside Bethlehem, that would be the biggest mistake.
[00:17:48] We are in the holiest place. Come
[00:17:51] just for Ramadan. My friends whom I haven't seen all
[00:17:55] year, I wait for them for the Taraweeh
[00:17:58] prayer. They come, they finish the Taraweeh prayer, and they come
[00:18:01] to me. We sit
[00:18:05] and talk, we have fun, and they have suhoor with me.
[00:18:08] And from my place, they go to their work
[00:18:12] and their homes. The best atmosphere. We wait for Ramadan.
[00:18:15] We wait, we wait for Ramadan,
[00:18:18] especially because I miss my friends.
[00:18:21] All this time, no one sees anyone. We are all busy with our work.
[00:18:25] In this ,
[00:18:28] there is a feeling, by God, we are used to it.
[00:18:31] Yes. Tell us about it, and they love to come
[00:18:35] to me. Why? Because it's only a second between us and the mosque. We also
[00:18:39] have a mosque for women, and we have a mosque for everyone. Everyone
[00:18:42] knows it, of course. You understand? How close it is.
[00:18:46] They wake up in the mornings, go for the dawn prayer, go pray in the mosque,
[00:18:49] and come back. It's just a few seconds.
[00:18:53] This is also something nice. We also had people from Morocco
[00:18:56] who wanted to
[00:18:59] prayer. I would prepare coffee for them here, a piece
[00:19:02] of biscuit. They would go and come back and
[00:19:05] continue their sleep. And thank
[00:19:08] God. And thank God.
[00:19:27] As soon as the tourist enters, by God, he feels
[00:19:30] safe by himself. He feels that he is
[00:19:34] safe.
[00:19:36] It's like, by God, there's something about this place,
[00:19:39] because he just entered. He
[00:19:43] entered the yard. He sits down.
[00:19:45] We receive him with hospitality, with everything.
[00:19:48] He is psychologically comfortable. He doesn't even ask about the rent,
[00:19:52] and he doesn't ask about anything. I mean, he sees
[00:19:55] everything with his own eyes, and we explain to him, and he sees and sees
[00:19:58] the situation and sees everything. The tourist comes to us.
[00:20:02] Thank God. But I
[00:20:06] rely mostly on our people in the North. These are our people
[00:20:10] who remain in the North. We do for them. When a foreigner comes
[00:20:13] to us, he stays for a night or two and leaves. But we are concerned
[00:20:17] about the people of the North. As you say, whenever there are closures,
[00:20:21] whenever there are holidays, whenever anything happens, they come to the city of
[00:20:24] Bethlehem. We love the people of the North to come to us in Bethlehem.
[00:20:28] Of course, they also have special prices for the people of the North, and we take care of them because
[00:20:32] our people, our people of '48, also suffered what we suffered.
[00:20:36] Oh, poor Palestinian, from your blood.
[00:20:40] He remains from you and in you. The foreigner
[00:20:43] remains a foreigner. I mean, a foreigner comes for two days,
[00:20:47] a week, then packs up and leaves.
[00:20:50] Unlike the Palestinian, who comes whenever there are holidays, whenever there
[00:20:53] are parties, whenever there are events in Bethlehem.
[00:20:57] You find him there. You don't find him absent. This is us.