Israeli Arabs hold weddings in a village half in Israel and half in the Palestinian Authority • Owner of a Palestinian celebration complex: "I only rent the area, everyone else who takes care of it"
A wedding of Israeli Arabs in Palestinian Barta'a
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The corona is hitting the Arab sector, and sector leaders fear that recent gains in reducing the rate of virus infection among Israeli Arabs will evaporate and the rates of those diagnosed positive for the virus will rise, so that closures, curfews and severe traffic restrictions will be inevitable.
The head of the fight against corona in the Arab sector, Ayman Saif, has repeatedly admitted in recent days that after the summer events in the Arab sector were almost completely stopped, after being diagnosed as a massive center of contagion, the sector is once again hosting weddings and mass events.
Many couples in the Arab sector, mainly from the northern and triangular regions, have identified a loophole that allows them to marry while circumventing the gathering restrictions by transferring the wedding location to the seam areas near the Green Line and subject to Palestinian control.
Thus, the village of Barta'a in Wadi Ara, half in Israeli territory and half in the Palestinian Authority, became a center of pilgrimage for young Arab-Israeli couples, who hold wedding parties in the halls and event gardens set up in the village, which sometimes last a week.
In the Palestinian territory of the village, several open and closed complexes have recently been trained as event gardens and joy halls for couples wishing to marry in the Palestinian half of the village.
"Snatch every free date"
Bader is a resident of Tulkarm, who recently prepared land that he owns in the Palestinian half of the village of Barta'a as an event garden.
He tells "Israel Today" that he has no available dates until December.
"They do not care even if it rains, I snatch any available date," he says, "I just rent the area to them and make sure to pave access roads and be safe. For the rest the tenants take care, food, drink, band, everything they bring from the authority The Palestinian. "
A senior Arab leadership official told Israel Today that "this patent that renewed the weddings but transferred them to the Palestinian Authority to evade the restrictions will come back to us like a boomerang.
According to him, another source of concern in the sector is the latent morbidity and the fact that many Israeli Arabs returning from abroad refrain from entering isolation according to Ministry of Health guidelines. "Unfortunately, they did not go into isolation when they returned to Israel," he says
.
"This is our responsibility"
MK Yosef Jabarin from the joint list says that the leadership of the sector is working harder to lower morbidity rates. Low who without resources have no ability to cope.
"Localities that were red and turned green lost budgets, and that is one of the reasons for the increase."
MK Jabarin added: “I call on the public to avoid gatherings, especially at weddings.
That is our responsibility. "
MK Sundos Saleh also addressed a discussion in the Knesset committee on the damage caused to the Arab sector due to the corona plague, and pointed an accusing finger at the government as the one that it claims neglects the young people. "What is this opacity ?!
What needs to happen for them to wake up in government for an entire generation?
That we will see young people commit suicide? "The MK wondered from the joint list during the discussion in the Corona committee in the Knesset.
