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Families of Yemeni children do not settle for compensation: "Open confidential documents"

The approval of the outline for the recognition of the disappearance of the children of Yemen, the East and the Balkans in the establishment of the state has rekindled the painful memories of the victims.

"They worked on my parents' eyes," said Yona, whose three brothers were taken away.

Michael, whose mother was told his brother had died at the age of two, demanded: "Reveal the truth"

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Maya Horodnichano

Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 6 p.m.

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In the video: The Yemeni children affair: the government approves compensation for the affected families (Walla! NEWS system)

The government decided last night (Monday) to provide compensation to the victims of the disappearance of Yemeni, Eastern and Balkan children and to acknowledge the acts, but the families make it clear that the move is not sufficient.

According to them, the decision is an attempt to whitewash the affair, and the first thing to be done on the way to healing the wounds is to reveal the confidential documents relating to the offenses committed in the establishment of the state.

"It's giving money to shut our mouths. That's how I think," said Yona Iraqi Hacohen, 77, who said three of her brothers were taken.

Iraqi Hacohen wondered "Where has everyone been all these years. I am angry that my parents are no more, and I promised that until the day I die I will not give up, have done injustice to the Yemenis. I am outraged."

According to her, her sister, who was ten months old, was taken when they arrived in Israel from Yemen.

Her mother was told that her sister looked yellow, and was asked to come and breastfeed her.

On Friday, the father arrived to pick her up, and was sent to the office to pick up a release letter.

"When he got back to the baby house, she was no longer there. The nurse told him she died a long time ago, but he said 'how, you sent me to the office.' So he said 'well we'll go bury her, and they told him they had already buried her. .

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Demonstration to recognize the affair, Tel Aviv (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

Iraqi Hacohen said that a few years later her mother had twins born at home.

The two went together to the hospital where the twins were taken.

They were soon told they were dead.

When the father came and asked to be buried they told him that they had already been buried but did not receive any document confirming this.

"The children did not die. And if they did, then where were they buried? Work on my parents' eyes. Shame and disgrace that we in the State of Israel, the Jewish state, do such a thing."

Michael Sharabi, who was told by his mother that his baby brother died when he was two and a half years old, criticized the decision.

"We did not talk about monetary compensation, we talked about revealing the truth, opening what is supposed to open. The fact that they set up an archive and printed some of the things that were known is fine, it did not renew anything for us. "Before the families for all the injustice. After that it will be possible to talk about compensation," he said.

"We are currently asking them to reveal the truth, to take responsibility for what is being done there, and not to come and say so. Take compensation to silence the matter," he added.

Sharabi went on to describe the things he heard from his mother about one day being told to send her son to a baby house.

"They came to the parents and told them to bring the children to the baby house and take better care of them. They said they would be there at night and during the day with the parents."

According to him, one day in the snow, his mother saw her son playing ball and drinking a cup of tea.

But the next day she was told he was dead.

"The parents were innocent, she came home and that's it," he said.

But in the 1960s, police suddenly came home, as the same child had not turned up for a conscription order.

"From here, the whole affair began," he said, adding that each time they received different documents, one on death and another on leaving the country.

Demonstration to recognize the affair, Tel Aviv (Photo: Flash 90, Tomer Neuberg)

The Spanish Spanish association said in a statement that the government's decision "hurts the feelings of the families whose children have disappeared under its responsibility. The government decision states that the compensation was done before the law. But it is a violation of history and pain Of the State of Israel for the events of the children's disappearance. "

The president of the union, Prof. Shimon Sheetrit, himself lost his sister Sarah, who disappeared when she was ten months old.

"We never forgot my sister Sarah, and we never lost hope of finding her after all these years. Many tears and long nights we found no rest. My parents and other children's parents would have turned over in their graves if they had known that the State of Israel, after all these years, refuses to acknowledge its responsibility. The liability through 'compensation before the rule of law' ", he argued.

Amram, which has been at the forefront of the struggle over the issue in recent years, did not apologize for the move. "Arbitrary and restrictive separation between families who have applied to the committees, and are entitled to apply for compensation, and families who have not done so."

Up to NIS 200,000 per family

As part of the government's decision, which was made about a month before the election, an outline was established regulating financial compensation for the affected families, in the amount of NIS 162 million. NIS 150,000 will be transferred to family members who were not told anything about the deaths of their children in real time, including the circumstances of the death, a burial site that was not located, or whose burial place was found with considerable delay. In the event that the last committee's conclusion was that it is not known what happened to the child, his family members will receive compensation of NIS 200,000.

Three committees have dealt with the case over the years: a commission of inquiry into the discovery of Yemeni children, a committee to determine the fate of missing Yemeni children and a state commission of inquiry into the case of the disappearance of children among Yemeni immigrants in 1948-1954. Family members who have been determined by one of the committees that their child is dead or whose fate is unknown will be able to apply for monetary compensation from June to November 2021.

In addition, the government first recognized the disappearance of children. "As part of the decision, the Israeli government expresses its regret over the events that took place in the early days of the state, and acknowledges the suffering of the families whose children were part of this painful affair," it was reported.

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