This story was published yesterday in the alternative press because no major news sources seem to be carrying it. “Happy Thanksgiving” was Phil Weiss’ cynical appraisal as Israel apparently used the American holiday to mete out more destruction of Palestinian life in the West Bank, life that already exists on the edge of abject poverty.
Israeli forces demolished Palestinian homes in the Jordan Valley and the South Hebron Hills today in what seems as a wave of demolitions following yesterday’s demolitions all across the West Bank. Non-violent leaders from Beit Ummar have also been arrested in night raids. Grassroots organizers Mousa and Yousef Abu Maria were arrested from their homes as harassment continues in Beit Ummar
After carrying demolitions in the villages of Qarawat Bani Hassan near Salfeet, al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley and Hizma near Jerusalem yesterday, Israeli bulldozers returned to the Jordan Valley today. At 6:30 this morning, Israeli Civil Administration bulldozers accompanied by soldiers and armored military jeeps entered the Jordan Valley village of Khirbet Yarza, east of Tubas, and demolished the village’s mosque, houses and four animal shelters. The demolitions rendered eleven people homeless.
LINK: http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/israel-conducts-wave-of-demolitions-including-mosque-across-west-bank.
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