Occupied Jerusalem - SANA
With words mixed with pain and suffering, the Palestinian Abdul Rahman Abu al-Kabash from the village of Hamsa al-Fawqa in the Jordan Valley describes what happened to him and to Palestinian families. The Israeli occupation forces demolished their homes and facilities in order to seize their lands and establish settlements on them, saying .. For the fourth time the occupation forces demolished my house and displaced us in the open with ten families Others ... they arrested us, beat us, and demolished our homes ... But we will stand firm on our land and resist settlement, Judaization and displacement, and we will not leave because we are the owners of the land and the occupation is inevitably fleeting.
Abu al-Kabbash explained in a statement to SANA's correspondent that the occupation is planning to displace the people of the village of Hamsa al-Fawqa and the surrounding villages in order to seize 60,000 dunums of Palestinian lands with the aim of expanding settlements in the area and establishing other settlement roads bypassing them, adding that we are subjected to constant aggression from the occupation .. incursions, demolition and intimidation For children and women ... we spread the land and envelop the sky, but we do not fear their oppression and aggression, and we will remain on the earth resisting all the colonial occupation plans aimed at uprooting us from the depths.
The situation of the Palestinian Abu al-Kabbash is not different from the situation of his neighbor Suhail Awada, whose house was demolished by the occupation and the homes of three of his family members, as he says .. They threw the children outside in the cold and did not allow them to take their toys or school books from their homes or even take out the furniture and clothes they needed .. Then she got up. The bulldozers of the occupation bulldozed everything and leveled the houses and tents with the land, but all these crimes will only increase the Palestinians' determination to remain steadfast and steadfast on the ground.
Chairman of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission Walid Assaf indicated that what is happening in the Jordan Valley of demolishing homes and establishments, pursuing farmers, expanding settlements and building settlement roads, is part of a systematic plan to displace Palestinians from the area, indicating that the occupation has announced its intention to seize thousands of dunams of the Jordan Valley lands, especially the villages of Homsa Al-Fuqa, Al-Baqi’a, Yarza, Al-Farsiya, which has fertile soil, and consequently, the entire Jordan Valley, which represents the Palestinian food basket, will be taken over.
Assaf pointed out that the occupation has intensified its settlement plans in the Jordan Valley, which constitutes a third of the area of the West Bank, to undermine any opportunity to establish an independent Palestinian state that is geographically connected, stressing that the Palestinian people will continue to hold out on their land and will not allow the occupation to seize it and will continue the national campaign to replant thousands of trees and strengthen farmers' steadfastness in the area. Confronting the displacement and Judaization plans that aim to displace 70,000 Palestinians from the villages and towns of the Jordan Valley.
The Director of the Popular Action at the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, Abdullah Abu Rahma, explained that the occupation is waging a war against the Palestinians in the Jordan Valley by intensifying the demolition and expansion of settlements, pointing out that the ongoing crime of occupation in the village of Homs al-Fawqa and the rest of the Jordan Valley represent a link in the process of displacement and ethnic cleansing while the community International is silent on these heinous crimes.
The human rights researcher, Aref Daraghmeh stated that the occupation has demolished entire Palestinian villages and towns in the Jordan Valley and is implementing a plan to displace 48 villages scattered in various areas in the Jordan Valley with the aim of expanding 33 settlements established by the occupation in the north, central and southern Jordan Valley since its occupation in 1967 and intends to separate them from the rest of the West Bank, indicating that the occupation Last year, 370 Palestinian homes and facilities were demolished in the Jordan Valley, and another 300 facilities were planned to be demolished as part of the intensive annexation and settlement policy, with the aim of seizing Palestinian land.
For his part, settlement specialist Ayman Gharib pointed out that the occupation demolished the village of Homsa al-Fawqa for the fourth time in three months, in order to expand four settlements surrounding the village and cut off the road to the surrounding villages, as they are located in a strategic area, in addition to uprooting about 15,000 trees in the Jordan Valley since the beginning of this year and demolishing Dozens of agricultural installations and most farmers have been deprived of cultivating and cultivating their land, with the aim of displacing them and expanding settlements to complete the process of ethnic cleansing of the right of the Palestinians in the Jordan Valley.
In turn, a member of the PLO Executive Committee Wasel Abu Yusef said that the settlement file was submitted to the International Criminal Court, which declared that it has jurisdiction over occupied Palestine, and therefore the occupation will be pursued over the crime of settlement, Judaization and forced displacement of thousands of Palestinians as war crimes punishable by international law, stressing that the people The Palestinian will continue its struggle and resistance to all the colonial occupation schemes, and the international community must support it to obtain its legitimate rights, foremost among which is the right to self-determination.
The Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouti, affirmed that the occupation’s demolition of Homs al-Fawqa in the Jordan Valley for the fourth time constitutes a crime of ethnic cleansing and a war crime, indicating that the statements of condemnation and condemnation issued by the international community are insufficient and he must implement the UN decisions that confirm the illegality of settlement and work to curb the occupation Israeli and stop his crimes against the Palestinians.