"The Occupation doesn’t have the right to change the geography of the occupied lands." That’s what the International Law saying, but Israel then started to build the separation wall, without any respect for that International Law. So powerful had Israel become, such was the unlimited support it was getting from the United States and its British ally.
The occupation main target is how to force every Palestinian to become a refugee. They trying to put the Palestinians under the pressure of the occupation measures: killing, curfews, arresting people, land confiscation, houses demolition, closing streets, destroying schools and all other humiliating measures, so the people only asking for survival. So they will not think about the revolution! And beside all that they building the wall and building those settlements beside the Palestinian villages while the settlements blocs Israel planned to annex, which thrust like dagger into the Palestinian land, were now sheathed by the wall.
"The Separation Apartheid Wall" is a long reinforced concrete wall built by Israel in the west bank to prevent the entry of residents of west bank Palestinians to Israel or Israeli settlements. A political barrier has based on colonial racist ideology. The barrier is composed of fences and walls; the construction of the wall in 2002 under the Al-Aqsa Intifada (the second Intifada), as it is along the wall three times the length of the Berlin wall in length and double in height(1).
I'm a student who lives in a village that surrounded from several areas of that wall just like the other villages and cities in the west bank; I've been suffering personally from that apartheid wall; when I was thirteen or less my father used to take me with him to the Al Makased hospital in Jabal Elzaiton (East Jerusalem), where he was working as a nurse there, he was arrested many times by the Israeli military authorities, so he lost his Permit to get to Israel, but he kept going there without permission for three years, that was before completing building the separation wall, there were many points near Z'aem and El Sheikh Sa'd (villages near Jerusalem) where the wall wasn’t completed yet. My father used to take these points to reach the other side of the wall (Jerusalem), so he could reach the hospital; these ways are illegal and so dangerous; as he went back home many times without getting through and he was going two or three days earlier; he used to take me with him to avoid the dangers, so he would tell the army that he is taking his child to the hospital and that he isn’t making any danger to Israel by walking with his child toward the hospital because he can't go through the entries to Jerusalem. During that dangerous road to reach Jerusalem I used to smell an offensive smell that I will never forget, the smell was coming from the sewage from Z'aem village, and you can smell it far away from the plants that grown up from that sewage; I will never forget that betahon (A Hebrew ward means "security") they were guarding the area during the building of the wall and also guarding the bulldozers which taking its way through the mountains, the betahon looked like they were Bedouins, they were armed Bedouins, they were yelling at us, telling us to go away from here. I was really scared. Actually after we got through I started weeping, but I didn’t have the chance even to cry, because an Israeli army jeep was taking his way in the trace just next to the wall in the Israeli side, after a while we continued moving till reaching the safe side and a little away from the wall, there were no cabs to pick us up, so we continued moving till reaching the main street I remember in that day a friend of fathers came and pick us up to the hospital. While we were in the car I saw the last point we were about an hour ago nearby the betahon, I don’t think it could take ten minutes to reach him by the car.
If I can talk about the walls' effects on the Palestinian citizens in the west bank, I can tell that the wall destroyed economic installation depriving Palestinians of work and education, there's lack of hospitals in the region of the villages of Jerusalem. So that wall is not only eliminates the possibility of an independent Palestinian state, but also eliminates the potential of the Palestinian presence on this land.
Through our walk to Battir and 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 nobody's 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).
In 1948, the Zionists seized on some buildings in the village and neighboring villages, like Walaja and Alqabo including the schools 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 Al-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 in the villages, so the cannot say that there'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, when the Zionist occupation to allow the people of Battir exploit agricultural land occupied. But still 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.
Maybe we are students but we end up our walk by planning the olive trees; 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 just near by the green line where we can't cross that line even if we can't see it.
The olive trees where we were walking in Turmos Ayya, where even in that village that 80% of its population are carrying the American citizenship, the occupation authorities confiscated part of the territory of the village and established by the settlement "Shilo," and the one can see the settlement on the top of the hills, I felt so sorry and thought that also if you was carrying the American citizenship, the occupation will not stop stealing your land and stop building the settlements on your land.
Palestinians started to convince themselves that the occupation is not existed anymore they trying not to see it, they just trying to forget about it, so they getting nearest and nearest to the wall and they think that they are FREE by doing that, all that came from their thoughts that the occupation will end one day, so they are just waiting and waiting and keep waiting without working on their dream "The Palestinian Dream", their land for their own, the freedom, and going back home, but we can't just wait! Wait for what??
We as a Palestinians are always waiting. We wait at the checkpoints, we wait for permits, and we have to get to the airport so early to make to make sure you can get through it. Our life is series of waiting episodes. Maybe now waiting for the political solution, and those people who are involved in the diplomatic solution, it's just not their children who have been starving, nor their children who were killed, and it's not their houses that were destroyed during building that wall which has got them away from their works, they are not waiting at the checkpoints for hours, they just can't feel it or understand it as much as we do, maybe they can see us on the TV, but though when they turn it off we still here and nothing change. We ask for freedom but we are not working for it, IMPOSSIBLE!! We just can't get our dream that easily. We are living our case since the childhood and yet we are still waiting… I hope that its fate be fate of the Berlins wall, which have become a symbol of the peace in Europe and the whole world.
The occupation main target is how to force every Palestinian to become a refugee. They trying to put the Palestinians under the pressure of the occupation measures: killing, curfews, arresting people, land confiscation, houses demolition, closing streets, destroying schools and all other humiliating measures, so the people only asking for survival. So they will not think about the revolution! And beside all that they building the wall and building those settlements beside the Palestinian villages while the settlements blocs Israel planned to annex, which thrust like dagger into the Palestinian land, were now sheathed by the wall.
"The Separation Apartheid Wall" is a long reinforced concrete wall built by Israel in the west bank to prevent the entry of residents of west bank Palestinians to Israel or Israeli settlements. A political barrier has based on colonial racist ideology. The barrier is composed of fences and walls; the construction of the wall in 2002 under the Al-Aqsa Intifada (the second Intifada), as it is along the wall three times the length of the Berlin wall in length and double in height(1).
I'm a student who lives in a village that surrounded from several areas of that wall just like the other villages and cities in the west bank; I've been suffering personally from that apartheid wall; when I was thirteen or less my father used to take me with him to the Al Makased hospital in Jabal Elzaiton (East Jerusalem), where he was working as a nurse there, he was arrested many times by the Israeli military authorities, so he lost his Permit to get to Israel, but he kept going there without permission for three years, that was before completing building the separation wall, there were many points near Z'aem and El Sheikh Sa'd (villages near Jerusalem) where the wall wasn’t completed yet. My father used to take these points to reach the other side of the wall (Jerusalem), so he could reach the hospital; these ways are illegal and so dangerous; as he went back home many times without getting through and he was going two or three days earlier; he used to take me with him to avoid the dangers, so he would tell the army that he is taking his child to the hospital and that he isn’t making any danger to Israel by walking with his child toward the hospital because he can't go through the entries to Jerusalem. During that dangerous road to reach Jerusalem I used to smell an offensive smell that I will never forget, the smell was coming from the sewage from Z'aem village, and you can smell it far away from the plants that grown up from that sewage; I will never forget that betahon (A Hebrew ward means "security") they were guarding the area during the building of the wall and also guarding the bulldozers which taking its way through the mountains, the betahon looked like they were Bedouins, they were armed Bedouins, they were yelling at us, telling us to go away from here. I was really scared. Actually after we got through I started weeping, but I didn’t have the chance even to cry, because an Israeli army jeep was taking his way in the trace just next to the wall in the Israeli side, after a while we continued moving till reaching the safe side and a little away from the wall, there were no cabs to pick us up, so we continued moving till reaching the main street I remember in that day a friend of fathers came and pick us up to the hospital. While we were in the car I saw the last point we were about an hour ago nearby the betahon, I don’t think it could take ten minutes to reach him by the car.
If I can talk about the walls' effects on the Palestinian citizens in the west bank, I can tell that the wall destroyed economic installation depriving Palestinians of work and education, there's lack of hospitals in the region of the villages of Jerusalem. So that wall is not only eliminates the possibility of an independent Palestinian state, but also eliminates the potential of the Palestinian presence on this land.
Through our walk to Battir and 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 nobody's 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).
In 1948, the Zionists seized on some buildings in the village and neighboring villages, like Walaja and Alqabo including the schools 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 Al-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 in the villages, so the cannot say that there'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, when the Zionist occupation to allow the people of Battir exploit agricultural land occupied. But still 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.
Maybe we are students but we end up our walk by planning the olive trees; 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 just near by the green line where we can't cross that line even if we can't see it.
The olive trees where we were walking in Turmos Ayya, where even in that village that 80% of its population are carrying the American citizenship, the occupation authorities confiscated part of the territory of the village and established by the settlement "Shilo," and the one can see the settlement on the top of the hills, I felt so sorry and thought that also if you was carrying the American citizenship, the occupation will not stop stealing your land and stop building the settlements on your land.
Palestinians started to convince themselves that the occupation is not existed anymore they trying not to see it, they just trying to forget about it, so they getting nearest and nearest to the wall and they think that they are FREE by doing that, all that came from their thoughts that the occupation will end one day, so they are just waiting and waiting and keep waiting without working on their dream "The Palestinian Dream", their land for their own, the freedom, and going back home, but we can't just wait! Wait for what??
We as a Palestinians are always waiting. We wait at the checkpoints, we wait for permits, and we have to get to the airport so early to make to make sure you can get through it. Our life is series of waiting episodes. Maybe now waiting for the political solution, and those people who are involved in the diplomatic solution, it's just not their children who have been starving, nor their children who were killed, and it's not their houses that were destroyed during building that wall which has got them away from their works, they are not waiting at the checkpoints for hours, they just can't feel it or understand it as much as we do, maybe they can see us on the TV, but though when they turn it off we still here and nothing change. We ask for freedom but we are not working for it, IMPOSSIBLE!! We just can't get our dream that easily. We are living our case since the childhood and yet we are still waiting… I hope that its fate be fate of the Berlins wall, which have become a symbol of the peace in Europe and the whole world.
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