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00:00:00Day by day, the killing of
00:00:00safe at all, neither at night nor during dozens of martyrs
00:00:03There is suspicious movement at and dozens of injured.
00:00:08that at any moment, people and our homes can be attacked. in Jabalya refugee camp, then moved to
00:00:15herding or putting and to support refugees in
00:00:17today, if you talk to
00:00:31I mean, women
00:00:32the new plan deprives them of
00:00:34today, because the settlement
00:00:50in the camp,
00:00:58for Balata Refugee Camp Services. It is not
00:01:07for public toilets in
00:01:16in the camp, behind us. It is a settlement outpost not Of course, this work
00:01:16tired, but strong and
00:01:36Akhhar, no,
00:01:42Gaza, Balata, in
00:01:52or to the left of and Balata, in Bank. And thwarting
00:02:00Of course, I did not live through the Nakba,
00:02:03what he will do. It's very dangerous for I would go out into the sun or to but my grandfather, my ancestors,
00:02:06my father, and my mother told us
00:02:09in detail, especially
00:02:15in the West help my family. I would go to work during we heard in detail from my ancestors how
00:02:16Bank. This Israeli the Israeli gangs used to kill
00:02:20in our village or neighboring villages or cities
00:02:24and how they left the country and how they lived in
00:02:26the villages and displacement, the mountains
00:02:28The UNRWA cutbacks, unfortunately, for certain periods and days,
00:02:30many of them, and moved between the villages of Ramallah
00:02:34and Nablus and the village of Balata.
00:02:37And how they lived in tents, of course, they kept
00:02:39are stronger than planes and stronger than telling us about it and the suffering they endured.
00:02:39time. So the conflict with
00:02:43as a committee and organizations with
00:02:44afraid, meaning they don't like to come to the following year, he allied with
00:02:54in the current 11 students who came from is very bad. I have livestock and eliminate
00:03:07they witnessed. The situation is very normal with
00:03:17the camp. Of course, out of the students until Even in the stories And they have houses in
00:03:23occupied Jerusalem for the second that were demolished by of '48, school. and the occupation, they left 18
00:03:23emigrated and went to elderly men or women. They couldn't carry them when they
00:03:26were leaving. They came back after two days to smuggle them.
00:03:32for two and a half years. But in They found them slaughtered or
00:03:33the buildings. Therefore, even is one of shot, killed out daily provocations at night, in all of them, even the sheep and cattle, they were all
00:03:36killed. Of course, my grandfather hoped
00:03:40that there would be a return, and he even died at the age of
00:03:43112 years. He hoped for
00:03:47the road, and we have to jump over the barrier the Palestinian return.
00:03:58to its decisions. So all
00:03:58resign are not the teachers, my fear
00:04:02even if there was a house in replaced, whether in
00:04:05and terrorist areas are education
00:04:31My tent and the wind of injustice
00:04:34has swept over us. My brother
00:04:39its principles, and my grandfather women are 80% of are sick,
00:04:43and the disease
00:04:46this village had about 6,000 head of is eating them. My sister and I swallow
00:04:50our tears.
00:04:55us, and my properties in My mother is sad, her tears
00:04:59are precious.
00:05:03At the beginning of the Nakba,
00:05:06occupations they lived for several years in tents.
00:05:09In the camp, this land was rented from
00:05:13its owners for 99 years, and they were
00:05:16living in tents, and UNRWA
00:05:19used to give them some
00:05:22food supplies and
00:05:25simple things to live on. So,
00:05:29the conditions were difficult, and
00:05:32without work, without jobs, without anything,
00:05:35life becomes very
00:05:37difficult.
00:06:03So, for example, you can imagine that
00:06:07we witnessed this: there were public toilets in Balata refugee camp,
00:06:09meaning waiting
00:06:13in line, whether it was a woman or a man.
00:06:16And four complexes
00:06:19the camp. Imagine
00:06:21their suffering.
00:06:23Then, after that, some housing units were built
00:06:28and this I lived through. For example,
00:06:32my father, my mother, and I, we were 10 siblings with my mother
00:06:36and father in one UNRWA room. We lived there for perhaps
00:06:39almost 20 years, and we were living in one room.
00:06:44A four-by-four room, and there was nothing, I mean, no necessities.
00:07:10I mean, I finished my high school. And when I was studying,
00:07:15the streets because there was no place to study
00:07:19or to do my family duties. I used to
00:07:24the three-month vacation because my father was a worker
00:07:28and couldn't. These matters started
00:07:31to improve, I mean, little by little, for one
00:07:34to try to build a house, to expand, so that
00:07:37vertical floors
00:07:41were built, of course, from our efforts as each family
00:07:44with its family. So this suffering was difficult,
00:07:47very difficult, even now, I mean, there is no possibility for anyone
00:07:51to build, because it has reached three or four floors.
00:07:55The structure cannot handle building more than that because it was not
00:07:59established for this matter.
00:08:16In '67, it was
00:08:18the Naksa. Of course, that was the Nakba, and this is the Naksa. For example, I had
00:08:22many relatives living in Balata refugee camp, from
00:08:25my aunts and uncles.
00:08:29fear
00:08:33some of them Jordan,
00:08:37and some also to the Gulf countries.
00:08:40And almost cut off, you know, after the occupation, their
00:08:44houses in the camp are still there today, unfortunately.
00:08:48I mean, they tell you that they hope that
00:08:51we will return to our homeland. Of course, the conditions
00:08:55of the camps were very difficult. You see,
00:08:59someone leaving in '48 to Balata refugee camp, waiting for
00:09:02the return, and then in '67, being displaced again to
00:09:06other Arab countries. And the conditions are still
00:09:10very difficult for them. And
00:09:15the camp, a simple house, I mean,
00:09:18living on UNRWA aid or working
00:09:21as a laborer in the West Bank, but
00:09:24a Nakba after a Naksa and after all that.
00:09:27So he has to try to rebuild himself. I mean, through my communication
00:09:31with my relatives in Jordan, he has to try to rebuild
00:09:36Jordan, whether by working or buying a house, and so
00:09:40on. So,
00:09:42the Naksa conditions also completed
00:09:46the suffering of some unfortunate refugees who went to other Arab countries.
00:10:20The Intifada came, the Stone
00:10:23Intifada.
00:10:25This started. Of course, we were
00:10:28living it. It started
00:10:32the West Bank, to Balata refugee camp, because
00:10:36the occupation army used to kill
00:10:39and arrest every day. So it started from Balata. At that time,
00:10:42three martyrs and dozens of injured fell.
00:10:45And even I, I was a nurse, I would
00:10:49transport the injured to hospitals in an
00:10:52ambulance. And the people,
00:10:56and children came out of the mosque. The popular
00:11:00uprising was huge, large, from Balata
00:11:04refugee camp. I mean, it even continued
00:11:07and spread to other areas. And the occupation
00:11:10tried at that time to break the spread in Balata
00:11:14refugee camp. It deported some leaders outside the country
00:11:18and arrested large numbers.
00:11:21But the national work in Balata refugee camp continued
00:11:25during the first Intifada, so much so that it is said that
00:11:29the first Intifada's decisions and leadership
00:11:33were mostly concentrated in Balata
00:11:36refugee camp.
00:11:39continued in coordination, of course, with the
00:11:43Palestine Liberation Organization in Balata
00:11:45refugee camp.
00:12:53perhaps. The first Intifada
00:12:56and the second Intifada. I want to link it to
00:13:00the refugee issue. Arab countries
00:13:03used to try to cover up and help,
00:13:06for example, when houses were demolished, or the camp was
00:13:09destroyed. There was some
00:13:12assistance to cover these matters.
00:13:16However, phase,
00:13:19we, as a popular committee, are suffering
00:13:23immensely due to the UNRWA cutbacks
00:13:27in a way
00:13:29that is unimaginable in all aspects of life.
00:13:33And there is no country or international organization
00:13:36helping Balata refugee camp and the other camps
00:13:39in the required way. For example,
00:13:42we have several houses
00:13:45the occupation. No one offers
00:13:49assistance to rebuild these houses, and the families
00:13:51whose homes were destroyed have been out of their homes
00:13:57the first and second Intifadas, if a house was demolished, within
00:14:00a month it would be rebuilt. If a house
00:14:04was destroyed, they would be assisted with food
00:14:07supplies. Many families who were
00:14:10unemployed received help. But now we are suffering greatly.
00:14:14For example, most medicines are not available at the UNRWA
00:14:18clinic in Balata refugee camp. Employees who retire or
00:14:28or health. The popular committee is currently
00:14:32trying by any means
00:14:34to bring some aid from here or there,
00:14:38but we cannot meet the needs due to
00:14:41the conspiracy against UNRWA to
00:14:44try to end its operations
00:14:47and to eliminate the camps, as happened in
00:14:50Jenin and Shu'fat. But in Balata and Nablus
00:14:53camps, we are steadfast, meaning
00:14:56we will remain until, God willing, the Palestinian issue is resolved, including the issue of
00:15:00refugees. But this requires real
00:15:03cooperation from all sectors
00:15:07of Palestinian society to keep the camp
00:15:10steadfast, because even Israeli and American
00:15:13statements threaten the issue of UNRWA
00:15:17and the camps. And we, in Nablus camps, have pulled
00:15:20the rug out from under the rumors that Israel
00:15:25is spreading. But the statements of the Israeli Minister of War
00:15:29say that we will continue in Nablus camps
00:15:32and besiege UNRWA. And God willing, there will be
00:15:35programmed activities with the Refugee Affairs Department, which is affiliated
00:15:39with the organization and the Authority, to develop a program
00:15:42to prevent the termination of
00:15:46UNRWA's activities
00:15:49the camps, God willing.
00:16:08A historic day, it's a holiday, and it's a very
00:16:10important day for governance in Jerusalem. For
00:16:14years, these terror supporters were
00:16:15here,
00:16:21and today these terrorists are being removed
00:16:25from here with everything they built
00:16:28here.
00:17:57The Israeli program existed before,
00:18:00but it increased by 180 degrees after October 7th
00:18:03in targeting Balata refugee camp. Although there is no justification
00:18:08currently for the occupation
00:18:11to do what it is doing
00:18:15inside the camp. We and the Authority coordinate
00:18:20the Authority and the Palestinian security forces. The Palestinian security forces enter
00:18:24and exit normally, and there is no
00:18:27excuse for the occupation. However, the occupation
00:18:30insists on destroying, arresting, and spreading
00:18:33some rumors in Balata camp. Even
00:18:37European officials visited Balata camp
00:18:40secretly and witnessed what
00:18:45the Palestinian National Authority
00:18:48and the political leadership.
00:18:51However, the occupation has its own program, but
00:18:55we reject this Israeli plan. Where will the residents
00:18:59go? There is no space in Nablus
00:19:02for us to go. They suffer as much as Jenin, Nur Shams,
00:19:06and Tulkarm camps. Europeans are not convinced
00:19:09by the Israeli plan that wants Balata
00:19:13camp to be emptied of its residents,
00:19:16as they did with Shu'fat
00:19:19and Jenin camps. But Nablus camps are different.
00:19:23We are present. We are with
00:19:26our leadership and the policies of the
00:19:30Liberation Organization and committed
00:19:35the Israeli pretexts that it broadcasts
00:19:38on Western radio and TV stations about the camps being contaminated
00:19:42rejected. We are committed to our
00:20:22hosted in the West Bank
00:20:24as a host, just as it is in Jordan, Syria,
00:20:27and Lebanon. And the refugee card is with
00:20:32'48, my father's and my
00:20:35grandfather's properties are in
00:20:38the village of Tier Dandun, in the district of Lod.
00:20:42No one can cancel it. I am
00:20:44a refugee and will remain a refugee until I regain
00:20:47my rights through my efforts and the efforts
00:20:51of everyone. Whatever plans there
00:20:54are, I am a refugee and will remain a Palestinian refugee.
00:20:58Just as there are all
00:21:01the decisions regarding Syrian
00:21:03refugees. I am Palestinian. Why
00:21:07did the world allow Syrian refugees to be returned from Turkey
00:21:11to Syria, and all refugees in the world to be returned,
00:21:14except Palestinian refugees?
00:21:18Even
00:21:22compensation. There is the right of return and compensation. Even
00:21:26the new plan cancels compensation.
00:21:29But we tell them that I have a refugee card
00:21:32and what legally and nationally proves
00:21:36that I am a refugee is present here. Even
00:21:40we do not vote in municipal elections,
00:21:43and this committee is called the Popular Committee
00:21:48affiliated with the Ministry of Local Government, as it
00:21:52is in all diaspora camps.
00:22:17I mean, whoever reads history and listens to our ancestors
00:22:21and reads to historians and whoever
00:22:24lived through what happened in Gaza
00:22:28says that this is an Israeli plan since
00:22:31decades ago, as Golda Meir said. I
00:22:35have a Palestinian identity, but she killed
00:22:39the Palestinians who were in '48,
00:22:41who used to cooperate as humans for humanity. And what
00:22:45happened in Gaza,
00:22:48the destruction, displacement, killing, and slaughter
00:22:51of children. And what is the goal?
00:22:55The displacement of the residents of Gaza and emptying it,
00:22:58as they emptied it in '48.
00:23:01And they will continue
00:23:06terrorism that reads and compares, yes, there is what
00:23:10happened in '48, the Deir Yassin massacre
00:23:14and the massacres in and the same
00:23:18thing is happening in Gaza. And
00:23:21it was officially announced that the residents
00:23:25of Gaza will be displaced, and the
00:23:29story is not about October 7th, as
00:23:31they say. If October 7th was the
00:23:35story, then why have 70,000 martyrs
00:23:38died, most of whom are children and
00:23:42detainees, and so on? So the Israeli goals have become
00:23:46clear to everyone. The goal is displacement,
00:23:49killing, and crime, historically, both in '48
00:23:52and in '67. How was it different in '67? It was not
00:23:56like the current events in Gaza,
00:23:59but no, the goal is one, and this is a planned
00:24:03and programmed plot.
00:24:06Even international investigations say that October 7th was a deceptive
00:24:10act for what happened. What
00:24:13is happening now in Jenin camp, Tulkarm camp, and Nur Shams?
00:24:17Is the security situation such that there are no residents? Even at
00:24:20this moment, they are demolishing
00:26:22The people here, of course, are afraid
00:26:26of what happened yesterday, that about
00:26:30eight houses were burned in the village and cars were also burned.
00:27:10Welcome to "A Story of a Homeland." Today, we meet
00:27:14to talk about a prominent Palestinian figure:
00:27:16Dhahir al-Umar. Dhahir al-Umar al-Zaydani was born in
00:27:201689 in the village of Arraba al-Battouf
00:27:23in northern Palestine. He emerged as one of the strongest
00:27:27rulers in Palestine during the Ottoman era, having been appointed
00:27:30governor of Acre in 1705.
00:27:34Thanks to building strong relationships with prominent families
00:27:37in the region, he was able to establish an independent rule for himself in northern
00:27:41Palestine. Dhahir al-Umar began his direct
00:27:44confrontation with the Ottoman authority in
00:27:471721 when he supported the people of al-Ba'ana
00:27:50village in their refusal to pay taxes.
00:27:53His influence expanded thereafter to include
00:27:56the Galilee and northern
00:27:59Palestine. He also fortified the city
00:28:02to protect it from the Druze Emirs. In
00:28:061712, and in
00:28:091742, he took control of the city of Tiberias, then
00:28:13his rule extended to Jabal Ajloun and the coast of Haifa,
00:28:16reaching the region of Jerusalem. Dhahir
00:28:20al-Umar worked to attract European merchants to his emirate,
00:28:23and when the Ottoman state suspected his intentions,
00:28:26he allied with the ruler of Egypt, Sheikh al-Balad Ali Bey
00:28:29al-Kabir. During these wars, Dhahir al-Umar fought
00:28:33both the governor of Damascus and the Shihab princes. He was able,
00:28:37with the help of Ali Bey al-Kabir's forces and the people of Jabal Amel, to enter
00:28:40Sidon and Damascus. In
00:28:45Emir Yusuf al-Druze. These
00:28:48successes did not last long for Dhahir al-Umar, as the Ottoman forces returned
00:28:51to control those areas
00:28:54the independence that this entity enjoyed,
00:28:58which Dhahir al-Umar established, under the leadership of Abu al-Dhahab, Ahmad
00:29:01Pasha al-Zar, and Captain Hassan Pasha, commander
00:29:05of the Ottoman fleet, who arrived in Haifa.
00:29:07This era ended with the killing of Dhahir al-Umar
00:29:11in 1775.
00:29:13After his death, the remaining of his grandchildren hid from
00:29:17al-Jazzar. His son Ali went to the Hauran
00:29:20region, while others sought refuge in southern Lebanon
00:29:24and were known as al-Baroudi.
00:29:26Some of his sons went to Nazareth and the village of Yaseed in northern
00:29:30Nablus, where there is still a large ancient
00:29:33building, about 12 meters high, and it is known to this day as
00:29:37Alali al-Dhahir. May God have mercy on Dhahir al-Umar. We will meet
00:29:41you in a new story. Dr. Abdullah Al-Safarini was with you.
00:32:12We are here in Khan al-Ahmar village and occupied
00:32:16Jerusalem. This small Bedouin village stands alone
00:32:19as the last guard at the gate of East Jerusalem. Here,
00:32:22we find children lying on the ground, shouting, "We will not
00:32:25leave!" And faces bearing the features of Palestine as it is:
00:32:31unbreakable. We witness legendary steadfastness that believes
00:32:34that land is life, and that remaining on it means
00:32:38challenge and steadfastness. The site of Khan al-Ahmar is not just
00:32:42an ordinary geographical site, but rather it is the heart
00:32:45and the pulsating heart of Jerusalem that stands against
00:32:49the occupation's plan aimed at displacing its original
00:32:52inhabitants and implementing a project aimed
00:32:55at separating the southern West Bank from its center
00:32:58and isolating the occupied city of Jerusalem from
00:33:01the rest of the West this plan means
00:33:05thwarting a project to erase the Palestinian existence
00:33:08and identity.
00:33:35The political and geographical situation of Khan al-Ahmar
00:33:39there. I will not go back in history. He who has no past has no present. From
00:33:43here, Saladin's armies passed to liberate Jerusalem. And from here,
00:33:47the armies of our master Omar al-Farooq passed
00:33:50to liberate the mosque. So it is a strategic area throughout
00:33:54the occupation is a conflict over this land, a conflict of existence.
00:33:58This land is not just Khan al-Ahmar village, because it is Khan
00:34:02al-Ahmar, but there are thousands of Palestinian villages. But the strategic importance
00:34:05of the location in Khan al-Ahmar. If it is uprooted, then
00:34:09from here, to our north, there is the Kfar Dimdim
00:34:12settlement. To our right, there is the Ma'aleh Dimdim settlement. And several settlements.
00:34:15They want to uproot this village to connect these settlements for two reasons, no third.
00:34:19First, everyone knows that Jerusalem has been closed off from the north,
00:34:23south, and west. Nothing remains for Arabs and Palestinians except the eastern
00:34:27gate. If this village is uprooted, there will be a belt of
00:34:30settlements to close the eastern gate to Jerusalem. This is number one. And number
00:34:34two, if this village is uprooted and settlements are built, it will cut off the West
00:34:37Bank, north and south. And this is the goal that is being worked on not by this
00:34:40government, but by all past Israeli governments. The humanitarian
00:34:44situation is a war, a military war,
00:34:47and an economic war on these residents.
00:34:50The humanitarian situation there is that this village is forbidden
00:34:54from working for almost exactly 20 years. Working in the Israeli
00:34:57sector is forbidden here. It is an industrial area. All
00:35:01Palestinians from all villages and cities come to work, but this
00:35:05village is forbidden from working for 20 years. Working in the Israeli sector
00:35:08is completely forbidden. The economic situation is very bad. The closures that you
00:35:12know about, you are inside a Bedouin village, so it has... So we
00:35:18are here today. This village is closed from all directions. It
00:35:21is exactly like Gaza, but it lacks bombs
00:35:25and planes. And the authority, it is closed from all directions. It is a prison. The livestock
00:35:30barracks, and the people are inside their homes in an economic war
00:35:34to push this Palestinian to the poverty line
00:35:39from the pastures, and from there, the Palestinian leaves, and the occupation forces say, "I
00:35:42did not welcome the Palestinian."
00:35:46The situation of women is very bad. Let's talk about women. Women, they
00:35:49say women are half of society. I say
00:35:53society because they are the mother, and they are the wife,
00:35:56and they are the economy inside the house. In the old days,
00:36:01livestock, and in total, they were in this village due to
00:36:05the closures. Here, there are settlement lands
00:36:08that are forbidden to enter. There are military areas here and there. So now,
00:36:111100 head are forcibly inside this village, and
00:36:15the women used to work and take cheese and distribute it to Palestinian
00:36:19markets, and she was the finance minister
00:36:23at that time and would buy for her home and her children. But today,
00:36:26there is no source
00:36:30for her except her husband, and there is a deadly and killing void. She used to
00:36:33milk the cows and make cheese and butter, so she didn't have
00:36:37any void. Today, she has a deadly and killing void for
00:36:40this woman. As for the children,
00:36:44a child, you see fear in his eyes, you see fear in
00:36:48all parts of his body towards
00:36:51settlers and settler attacks inside and outside the school
00:36:54and inside the village daily. Number one. Number
00:36:58two, I know that drones are used against ISIS,
00:37:02against terrorist organizations, but now they
00:37:05are present above the heads of children, and I have evidence
00:37:08of that. And inside the school, when a student,
00:37:11a seven-year-old or nine-year-old student, sees a drone above
00:37:15his head inside his school, which is protected by international laws, he flees from school
00:37:19and goes home. The drone is above my house, and I have pictures
00:37:22of it being above my house. But the suffering of men is
00:37:25much greater, or the burden and existence and steadfastness on their land
00:37:29is number one. Number two, it is not just my
00:37:33land; it is the gate of holy Jerusalem. On my shoulders
00:37:36rests a very heavy burden.
00:37:39The third number is when there are family
00:37:43needs and the needs of the wife
00:37:45for her house, for household needs. Number three,
00:37:49children. When you have children who go to school
00:37:53or schools in Jericho or schools in Jerusalem
00:37:56Governorate, transportation is a burden on you. And the greater burden is when
00:38:00you have daughters or
00:38:03young men who go to university. So there is
00:38:06very, very severe suffering.
00:38:09Very, very severe. First of all, welcome to Khan
00:39:03al-Ahmar village. We thank you for coming to the Khan
00:39:07al-Ahmar area despite the accelerating events in all
00:39:10Palestinian cities and villages. So we thank you very
00:39:14much for enduring the hardship and coming to this area,
00:39:17which, unfortunately, after the events that occurred
00:39:21and the war on Gaza and the extermination in Gaza, has become very
00:39:24marginalized, and has become, I mean,
00:39:28an easy prey for the occupation and its army
00:39:30and this extremist government
00:39:32and the Israeli
00:39:34occupation's coalition. I mean, this government is criminal.
00:39:38So there is no doubt that the suffering has increased, especially
00:39:41after the circumstances that the Palestinian people have gone through. I mean, now there is
00:39:45a settler dozens of meters away from the village,
00:39:47and the main concern of young and old
00:39:51is how to protect oneself from this settler who carries
00:39:56the daytime, again, in passing through
00:39:59the houses. And also preventing the sheep
00:40:03from leaving. I mean, now the sheep do not leave their pens except for
00:40:07a few meters. And he set boundaries on
00:40:10his own. He is besieging the village and putting up a flag and stones
00:40:14and striking. I mean, he is setting
00:40:18boundaries, and this Bedouin is not allowed to cross them. And if he crosses them, his
00:40:21sheep are confiscated, and his money is confiscated, and he is threatened
00:40:25and arrested. So now, unfortunately, the life of
00:40:29the citizen in this village is a living hell. He does not feel
00:40:32safe at night or during the day. He fears for his children,
00:40:35and for his wife. So now, there is no doubt that
00:40:41to leave, especially since we hear about the events in all Palestinian
00:40:45villages and cities at the end of Ramadan.
00:40:50a little bit.
00:40:53sheep, and he led me out of
00:40:57the pen, and this place is only a few meters away.
00:41:01So when we took out the sheep, about 15 settlers came
00:41:04and detained them and detained my children with them. This
00:41:08is undoubtedly difficult, especially when it's right in front of your eyes, not far from you.
00:41:11And the settler even threatened me, saying, "We, you know, you are only here for
00:41:14a limited time, and I'm just waiting for an order from the Israeli army,
00:41:18even the houses you are in belong to us." And he started threatening, "This is our land, it's ours, and we have
00:41:22papers and so on." He started threatening us in our homes, saying, "We are here, and we
00:41:26are just waiting for an order from the army to expel you from this area."
00:41:29So they detained the sheep and detained the children, and
00:41:33it became a
00:41:36the children and women did not feel
00:41:40the day.
00:41:43night, and we hear about incidents and so on, meaning
00:41:48First of all, we are steadfast on our land,
00:41:51from a religious perspective. This is the land of Ribat and the land of Jerusalem,
00:41:55and we seek reward and recompense from God Almighty before everything else.
00:41:58And everyone knows the resistance of steadfastness, and everyone knows
00:42:02what the Bedouins want in order to stand firm on their land. We do not need any explanation
00:42:06or demand. The government knows, and the private sector
00:42:10knows what makes this citizen steadfast.
00:42:43He comes and circles around in the car, and he is not afraid.
00:42:47He comes flying, and if anyone is in front of him, he runs them over. And we
00:42:50love our school and we love our country. A plane comes
00:42:54and photographs us from above. We are children, meaning they pull us. There are children inside
00:42:58our school. They pull them
00:42:59in.
00:43:08The situation of the school this year is very difficult because it has been exposed
00:43:11to the new settler housing
00:43:15here, which is a new settlement outpost for us. So this year we have faced many
00:43:19problems with this outpost. They were
00:43:21affecting the attendance process because they would detain
00:43:25students for more than two or three classes until
00:43:28the police came and the parents intervened for these children
00:43:32to be released. We still
00:43:34have fear in case the students go out to play
00:43:38in the playground, because the settler remains around them, and we don't know
00:43:43the children. All our time is spent in the yard, all our time following
00:43:46the children, God forbid, he might enter and beat the children, or
00:43:50for example, the children might talk to him under the pretext of
00:43:53being arrested or beaten. So all our time is in constant anxiety since
00:43:56the settlement outpost came, and we are in constant anxiety.
00:44:00The plane comes to photograph. The plane, since it is at high altitudes,
00:44:04does not really distract the students.
00:44:07But they don't like someone to photograph from above.
00:44:10They start to hide and say, "Miss, we don't want the Jews to photograph us." They develop
00:44:14a psychological state. Some students say, "I don't want to come tomorrow. This settler wants
00:44:18to come to us at school. He wants to arrest us, or beat us, or take
00:44:21our things." So they remain
00:44:24school unless the teachers are inside it.
00:44:27I had
00:44:30the area behind the mountain, meaning
00:44:33directly on their way to the settler. He detained them on the road for about
00:44:37more than an hour and a half. He detained them, and the children pleaded with him,
00:44:41"We want to go to school, and we want to go."
00:44:43And this and that. He detained them and said, "No." He kept
00:44:47his weapon pointed at them and made them sit down. He didn't let them move until
00:44:51the parents came, and he even detained the parents with
00:44:55the police intervened for more than two hours to release the students. The students were so scared
00:44:58and terrified that they didn't want to go back to
00:45:01The ministry continued to communicate until this problem was resolved.
00:45:04So, praise be to God, a bus was provided for these
00:45:08children to transport them, to
00:45:11avoid, God forbid, any incident from the settler towards these children.
00:45:15God, we have fear, especially crossing the street. There is a lot of fear,
00:45:19and we have faced many violations in crossing the street, and it's a highway, meaning
00:45:22it's unforgiving, especially if we are passing in front of a settler, he will often swerve towards us on
00:45:27again, meaning we have faced a lot. We have fear and dread. I
00:45:31work all day from morning until I go home, and my nerves are
00:45:35shot. My fear for the children, my fear for
00:45:38for the school, God forbid. I always have dread and fear. Most of my time
00:45:42is spent half the night thinking about what I will do in the morning, how I will protect
00:45:45the children, how I will protect my teachers. I have dread, I have fear.
00:45:49Yes, despite that, we cannot leave our school. These are children,
00:45:52and this is our land. We must challenge, of course, and educate.
00:45:56The steadfastness here, my sister, this is our land.
00:46:41When it comes to the occupation of Palestine, dozens of
00:46:46have passed, and all occupations have gone, and
00:46:49Palestine and the Palestinian people remain. We are on our land.
00:46:53We will not be red Indians. We will not leave our lands. We will not go anywhere
00:46:56to make way for the settlers. I will stay
00:47:00in my land and in my house. The life of a Bedouin is 60% or
00:47:0370% in the sun,
00:47:07fodder for sheep. So it doesn't harm me that this is my house,
00:47:11and I remained between heaven and earth. I will remain on my land. I will not leave
00:47:15it except to the Naqab or to the graves.
00:47:18The village of Khan al-Ahmar, all its people suffer in the West Bank from the settlers, but we suffer more. Why? It's not from
00:47:26next to us is the settlement of Kfar Adumim. From it,
00:47:30the settlement organization Regavim was founded. Its headquarters and offices
00:47:33have been there for about 18 years. It started, and its core
00:47:37was established within the settlement. Inside this settlement
00:47:40there are four Knesset members in this settlement.
00:47:43The former Israeli ambassador Sali Meridor, his house is in
00:47:47this settlement. This settlement has the engineer
00:47:51of the wall between the West Bank and '48. He is there. So this
00:47:55settlement is the
00:47:58strength of the settlers who are in it. The Regavim
00:48:01organization is in it. So it was published here. It is located
00:48:07more than 100 meters from this village. Its attacks are documented inside
00:48:10the school and among the residents, and at night and during the day,
00:48:14and it is heavily armed. We contacted all what are called
00:48:17Israeli agencies, whether the police or what are called the civil administrations.
00:48:21But we have a proverb among Arabs that says, "A bird does not peck out its brother's eye." They are all
00:48:24settlers, whether it's the policeman who comes or the civil
00:48:28administration official. He is a settler himself. They are all armed
00:48:31with heavy weapons. The decision of
00:48:35the occupation government was previously to completely demolish
00:48:38this village and remove this village. But we say to it, and to
00:48:41those behind you, whether to the right
00:48:44the occupation, we are here. We will not leave this
00:48:48land, even if the electricity is cut off. There is no electricity here.
00:48:51The water, we will bring it on donkeys, as our
00:48:55grandfathers and fathers brought it
00:48:58in the past. We will not leave this village. We will be present in this
00:49:01village, even if, as I told you, even if they demolish these houses, we will remain
00:49:04here. And they tried, and they tried to enter the village several times to scare these people.
00:49:08They demolished a house here, a house there, a house here, a house there, but the houses were rebuilt
00:49:12with the determination of the village residents and with the determination
00:49:15of the Palestinians. And the Palestinian brothers,
00:49:19the will and the right. What do the Bedouins
00:49:22say? The right, and its owner is ours. We are the owners
00:49:25of the right. We are staying on our lands, and this is stronger.
00:49:28The right and its owner
00:49:32tanks and stronger than every will. We demand,
00:49:35first, the economic situation here
00:49:39of various degrees. The second thing is education. When
00:49:43we have girls who have completed university education,
00:49:46female teachers, female doctors here,
00:49:49their integration into the Palestinian field. Number two, number
00:49:53three, people here rely entirely on livestock. The livestock,
00:49:56the livestock is locked up like prisons, just like human beings,
00:50:00just like their families. It is locked up, and fodder
00:50:03in the Palestinian market is very expensive. So we demand from the Ministry
00:50:06of Agriculture, and yes, there are attacks
00:50:10on all farmers in the West Bank, but there are different
00:50:14areas. One who grazes for a kilometer or 2 kilometers
00:50:17is different from what is closed off. This
00:50:21settler, this
00:50:24the... This is the one living around us here.
00:50:27What is happening here
00:50:31is an act of provocation. It is an act of provocation so that there will be
00:50:34one of the children or one of the things, even if there are
00:50:37children in front of him, he doesn't stop. So if
00:50:40the children are here now, when they see him coming from there, they run away
00:50:44from the road.
00:50:45They are scared.
00:52:21I mean, I walked almost 5 kilometers to get 15
00:52:25loaves for one person. We hope that
00:52:27the bakeries will open and the whole crisis will be resolved and
00:52:31life will return to normal in Gaza.
00:52:43So we are working with very weak capabilities, and there are also missing things
00:52:47that we are not able to provide. They are available, but there are no spare parts
00:52:50for this machine. It's working, I mean, how can
00:52:53I tell you? With motors that are not its own, belts
00:52:57that are not its own. We are patching it up so that we can work because everything
00:53:00we have is dilapidated, and we are trying to manage our affairs in every possible way to
00:53:03continue and be able to meet the demands of life.
00:55:19A brief summary of the main news. Welcome. The occupation forces continue
00:55:23their aggression on Qalandia refugee camp and Kafr Aqab town north of
00:55:28consecutive day, amidst a wide raid campaign and the arrest
00:55:31of a number of young men. Our correspondent reported that the forces
00:55:35pushed this morning with new military reinforcements into
00:55:38the camp and began implementing a demolition operation for a number of commercial
00:55:42stores around the Qalandia military checkpoint,
00:55:46in addition to raiding dozens of homes and carrying out arrest
00:55:50campaigns and field interrogations. The occupation
00:55:54forces also imposed a curfew in Kafr Aqab town
00:55:56and closed all junctions and roads leading to