DESTRUCTION of MASAFER YATTA

 

"So’ed stopped attending class after Israeli bulldozers crushed the village
school. That day, So’ed told us, she helped young children, the students of
lower grades, to escape through the windows. “We were in English class,” she
said. “I saw a Jeep approaching through the window. The teacher stopped the
class. Soldiers arrived with two bulldozers. They closed the doors on us. We
were stuck in the classrooms. Then we escaped through the windows. And they
destroyed the school.”"

Families whose homes are demolished by
military bulldozers are forced to live in the
caves, which quickly become overcrowded and
suffocating. Yet the residents
are also forbidden from ren-
ovating the caves, some of
which are already uninhab-
itable.

“We want to build reg-
ular houses, to live above-
ground. Sleeping in a cave
is like sleeping in a grave,”
said Fares Al-Najar, a resi-
dent of Al-Merkaz. Families
who don’t have a cave or who
refuse to accept such living
conditions are forced to ei-
ther leave their community
and lose their land—or build
a new house that will inevitably be demolished."

 

READ THE REPORT BY BASEL ADRA & YUVAL ABRAHAN