I started my journey from Bethany, where I live, heading to Battir village I didn't face any trouble reaching the Countainer chechpoint; a checkpoint which is located in the middle of the West Bank, and separated the North of the West Bank from the South, we got through that checkpoint so easily that we did not even stop a moment getting through it, and that's not what we used to, especially on that checkpoint, the taxi countinued going to the DCO area, where me and all the students will meet Professor Petti and the media team to start our walk through the wadi from the DCO area in Beit Jala to Battir.
Battir is located to the South-West of Jerusalem, away from about 8 kilometers West of Bethlehem, which is lies about 5 KM, rising from the sea 800 meters, with an area of the urban village of about 420 acres; surrounded by the territory of Walaja, Beit Jala, Husan, and the Basement. Etymology is due out on the label to the amputation of Phoenician words "Cut and Separated", as well as in Arabic, as well as there are other account of the bird and the house was in Roman fortress; that was about 5000 people in 2005*. The village of archaeological site contains old buildings, pools, seductives, and floors paved with mosaic.
Battir agricultural town, because in many of its territory grow olives and fruits and vegetables, different kinds of form-fed water Inaba, including: the country appointed, he was appointed collector, sparkling, moving water to farmlands through a coordinated network of canals from the spring of the village, some of canals dating back to ancient history, while the associations charities and donors form the village to renew or complete delivery to areas of new agricultural.
In 1948, the Zionists seized on some buildings in the village and neighboring villages, like Walaja and Alqabo including the sbhools and the railway station in the village. And the people of Battir, Alqabo and Walaja were forced to escape to another areas which is now known as "Refuge Camps", but they didn't stay there, as the Mokhtar (the most powerful man in the village, usually educated more than others) ordered the residents of the villages to go back to the villages and he told them to spread the clothes in the open air, and to light up the lamps to show the Zionists that there is residents inthe villages, so the cannot say thatthere's nobody n the villages so its nobody's land, but the people of Alqabo refused to do that and they preferred to stay in camps than going back to their home, as what the guide told us that they said, "here in camps we get the flour and the oil for free, but back home we should work hard to get our food." And they lost their land; that way Battiris' saved their land from stolen until Rhodes agreement.
Rhodes stipulated agreement signed by Jordan, like other neighboring countries to Palestine in 1949 with the zionist occupation to allow the people of Battir exploit agricultural land occupied, and their what helped them with that agreement is the school and that they still residents of that village, but that was no admission of any armed to the land, and they cant build and building in some areas in the village, so you can see some old buildings, seems to be homes and factories, and to the down of it you cant see any new building, but only large green lands, all the new buildings that you can see are far away from the old beautiful buildings, while you are standing there you feel like you are in preserve.
Crossing the teritory of the village railway reached Jerusalem to Lod in Palestine itself and from Cairo to Damascus in the area, that railway can then move them to many of the Palestinian territoriers through a network of railway company carried out by France in favor in favor of Ottmans Government, but the Zionists have seized that railway and they use it for themselves now, as it is connecting Israeli cities and settlements together and the Palestinians cannot use it anymore.
Through our walk into the Wadi we saw some farmers or workers, they were building a small wall to save the rain water for the plants, I asked the guide about them and their land, and he told me that if they stopped working in their lands, the Israeli Government will take their land because they are not working on it, so its nobodys land; and it will suppose that this is no mans land, that land between Beit Jala and Battir -the wadi where we walk through- is now an unspecified area as they asked if they want to be in the Palestinian side (with Beit Jala) or with the Israeli side (with Jerusalem).
Battir has many areas in it, and its area A and area B and the green line that cross the land, and there's 1948 lands and also no building areas; and before a while there was the Jordanian Government was the control; Israeli Government now is trying to take the land and to make it as a small settlement that belong to Alasyon's Great settlement, they started it by taking the railway, then building huge settlements around Battir, like the Nefoptir settlement to the South-West of Battir.
So it is all different ways of reaching the main purpose for the Israeli Government and it's to let all the Palestinian refuges in their country and the other Arab neighbor countries, by taking the little villages, and we have to fight back in all the way as Palestinians on this country; and that's what we had done by the end of the walk, we fight back the Israeli Government, by planting the olive trees just by the last allowed area we can reach as Palestinians in the West Bank. The olive tree shows the Palestinian confrontation the resistance against the occupation and it shows that the Palestinians withstand of against all kinds of hostility actions.
Battir is located to the South-West of Jerusalem, away from about 8 kilometers West of Bethlehem, which is lies about 5 KM, rising from the sea 800 meters, with an area of the urban village of about 420 acres; surrounded by the territory of Walaja, Beit Jala, Husan, and the Basement. Etymology is due out on the label to the amputation of Phoenician words "Cut and Separated", as well as in Arabic, as well as there are other account of the bird and the house was in Roman fortress; that was about 5000 people in 2005*. The village of archaeological site contains old buildings, pools, seductives, and floors paved with mosaic.
Battir agricultural town, because in many of its territory grow olives and fruits and vegetables, different kinds of form-fed water Inaba, including: the country appointed, he was appointed collector, sparkling, moving water to farmlands through a coordinated network of canals from the spring of the village, some of canals dating back to ancient history, while the associations charities and donors form the village to renew or complete delivery to areas of new agricultural.
In 1948, the Zionists seized on some buildings in the village and neighboring villages, like Walaja and Alqabo including the sbhools and the railway station in the village. And the people of Battir, Alqabo and Walaja were forced to escape to another areas which is now known as "Refuge Camps", but they didn't stay there, as the Mokhtar (the most powerful man in the village, usually educated more than others) ordered the residents of the villages to go back to the villages and he told them to spread the clothes in the open air, and to light up the lamps to show the Zionists that there is residents inthe villages, so the cannot say thatthere's nobody n the villages so its nobody's land, but the people of Alqabo refused to do that and they preferred to stay in camps than going back to their home, as what the guide told us that they said, "here in camps we get the flour and the oil for free, but back home we should work hard to get our food." And they lost their land; that way Battiris' saved their land from stolen until Rhodes agreement.
Rhodes stipulated agreement signed by Jordan, like other neighboring countries to Palestine in 1949 with the zionist occupation to allow the people of Battir exploit agricultural land occupied, and their what helped them with that agreement is the school and that they still residents of that village, but that was no admission of any armed to the land, and they cant build and building in some areas in the village, so you can see some old buildings, seems to be homes and factories, and to the down of it you cant see any new building, but only large green lands, all the new buildings that you can see are far away from the old beautiful buildings, while you are standing there you feel like you are in preserve.
Crossing the teritory of the village railway reached Jerusalem to Lod in Palestine itself and from Cairo to Damascus in the area, that railway can then move them to many of the Palestinian territoriers through a network of railway company carried out by France in favor in favor of Ottmans Government, but the Zionists have seized that railway and they use it for themselves now, as it is connecting Israeli cities and settlements together and the Palestinians cannot use it anymore.
Through our walk into the Wadi we saw some farmers or workers, they were building a small wall to save the rain water for the plants, I asked the guide about them and their land, and he told me that if they stopped working in their lands, the Israeli Government will take their land because they are not working on it, so its nobodys land; and it will suppose that this is no mans land, that land between Beit Jala and Battir -the wadi where we walk through- is now an unspecified area as they asked if they want to be in the Palestinian side (with Beit Jala) or with the Israeli side (with Jerusalem).
Battir has many areas in it, and its area A and area B and the green line that cross the land, and there's 1948 lands and also no building areas; and before a while there was the Jordanian Government was the control; Israeli Government now is trying to take the land and to make it as a small settlement that belong to Alasyon's Great settlement, they started it by taking the railway, then building huge settlements around Battir, like the Nefoptir settlement to the South-West of Battir.
So it is all different ways of reaching the main purpose for the Israeli Government and it's to let all the Palestinian refuges in their country and the other Arab neighbor countries, by taking the little villages, and we have to fight back in all the way as Palestinians on this country; and that's what we had done by the end of the walk, we fight back the Israeli Government, by planting the olive trees just by the last allowed area we can reach as Palestinians in the West Bank. The olive tree shows the Palestinian confrontation the resistance against the occupation and it shows that the Palestinians withstand of against all kinds of hostility actions.
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