Saturday, April 23, 2011

Diary from Palestine 4 - Deep South

At Tuwani is a village in the far south of the West Bank, a half hour from Hebron, in the grip of a settlement outpost of illegal Israeli settlers also from Tel Aviv. Despite this, the army and police patrolling the colony, but not enough to prevent attacks by settlers to the villagers, including children on the way to school (110 documented cases in recent years).

At the village received us Azef Heren, head of the local non-violent resistance, and the Italian volunteers of Operation Dove. Two hundred and fifty people (the settlers are at least 400) arranged in very humble homes, if not in tents, often swept away by the occupying army, which administers this area (absent here the Palestinian National Authority).

We offer a spicy rice, a vegetable soup and tea. A modest meal, which in this forgotten place, however, seems precious and abundant. As the generosity of these people. In the picture, a shepherd of the poor village of Al Tuwani, far south of the West Bank. Click to enlarge

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