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Video Journal from Occupied Palestine
Written by Patrick Crowe @ Oppression.org
Monday, 27 June 2011 00:00
ENTRY 3: Palestinian home imprisoned by 24 foot cage and surrounded by settlements
The al-Ghirayib family lives in one of the stranger manifestations of Israel's 43-year occupation of the West Bank: a Palestinian house inside a metal cage inside an Israeli settlement.
The family's 10 members, four of them children, can only reach the house via a 40-yard (meter) passageway connecting them to the Arab village of Beit Ijza farther down a hill. The passageway passes over a road used by Israeli army jeeps and is lined on both sides with a 24-foot-high (8-meter) heavy-duty metal fence.
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ENTRY 2: The Apartheid Wall
The Israeli apartheid wall the not only runs around the borders of the west bank but also through the middle of it, Separating Palestinian neighborhoods and cities and protecting Israeli settlers' illegal confiscation and occupation of land. These wall block in a Palestinian road with walls on both sides and walls along on the streets that pass over the road as well, creating no possible passage with out a vehicle.
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ENTRY 1: Price Tag
Israeli terrorists torched a mosque in central West Bank on Tuesday 7 June, according to police sources and eyewitnesses. The settlers call such attacks on Palestinians and their property as "a price tag" policy, scrawling the phrase on buildings they have targeted."Price tag" refers to a policy adopted by some radical settlers in which they respond to attempts by the Israeli military to curb their building or actions with attacks on Palestinians. This is the fifth mosque in the West Bank to be torched by settlers in the past two years. No perpetrators have ever been arrested.The Palestinian Authority government issued a statement accusing the Israeli authorities of turning a "blind eye" to such acts, giving settlers "impunity to continue their attacks."
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