More Destruction of Houses in Neguhot -- Preparing to Rebuild For the Third Time
Dear Friends,
Sunday night, January 4th, at 1 a.m., police and Yassam forces entered
the community of Neguhot in the southern Hevron hills, and, like
thieves in the night, went to the "Beit Hakerem" hill and ordered the
Ben-David family to get dressed, and leave their home into the night
cold. Once again, bulldozers destroyed their house, rebuilt only a
month and a half after their original, beautiful home was destroyed.
Two other homes, built nearby in solidarity with the Ben-David's, were
also destroyed. Again, the families' household goods were scattered
along the hilltop. The houses themselves, constructed of fiberboard
panels, were turned into a muddy conglomerate.
Yehudit Ben David called us early in the morning. This is what she told us:
"At around 1:00 in the morning we heard loud knocks on the door.
"Police, open the door!!" they shouted. We opened the door and saw the
troops outside. "We came to destroy your house. Get dressed and get
out". Then they cut off the electricity and the entire house was in
the dark".Yehudit and her husband told the police that their six
children were sleeping and they needed some time to get organized and
wake up the children, etc. The policeman said: "I must come in and see
if you are not lying and really have children sleeping here". The
policeman came in with a flashlight and confirmed that there indeed
were six children sleeping there, aged one year old to 12 year old.
"Get them up and get out" he told the parents. Yehudit said: "but
there is no light. You cut off the electricity. We can't see a thing.
Can I at least get one of your flashlights? Each and every one of your
policemen have flashlights- give us one". The policeman refused.
"Somehow we managed to get the kids up" says Yehudit. "Meanwhile Arabs
who had been employed by the police , entered our house and started
taking out our possessions, simply throwing everything outside, on the
muddy floor - the fridge, the matresses, the linens, the books, the
clothes..." After that the bulldozer came and destroyed our house and
an additional two that belong to our neighbors.
"Luckily, on the nearby hill that is also part of Neguhot, where some
ten families live, there was an empty caravan, and we temporarily
moved in there, till we can rebuild our house on the "Bet Hakerem"
hill, for the third time. "The problem is", said Yehudit ben David,
that now the "Beit Hakerem hill" is empty and Arabs who come by foot
from their village, kilometers away, approach the hill and steal our
belongings. They grab whatever they can and walk back to their village
far away.We must find a way of priotecting the hill.
Women in Green immediately organized a group of young men to stand
guard at the hill and together we drove out to Neguhot. The scene of
the destruction was heartbreaking. Just a few days ago we had come
there to protest the fact that Arabs had thrown a molotov cocktail
against a bus, wounding an 18 year old girl. Instead of trying to
catch the Arab terrorists, Israeli security forces were busy planning
the destruction of the Ben David house.
Through the ugly stratagems of Defense Minister Barak and the
deafening silence of Prime Minister Netanyahu, the power of the state
continues to be mobilized against "enemies of the state" like the
Ben-David's and their neighbors, whose "crime" is their desire to make
their homes in the Land of Israel generally, and within the legal
boundaries of their community of Neguhot specifically. They built
their homes in a designated new neighborhood of Neguhot to prevent
Arab squatters from expropriating their community's land, as is
happening throughout the Negev and the Galil along with Judea and
Samaria.
The spirit of these families won't be broken: they are ready to
rebuild their houses anew. We, secure for now in our nice, warm homes,
have to do our own mobilizing -- of ourselves -- to provide them with
the resources to rebuild their homes for the third time.
We call on all lovers of the Land of Israel to contribute to the
Yibane Fund, currently being established by Women In Green for
building and settlement in the hills of Judea.
While organizing the launching of this fund, the destruction in
Neguhot gave us an object lesson of the fund's purpose and necessity.
We can rebuild the houses destroyed in Neguhot within 10 to 14 days if
we can collect the funding. It will take 100,000 NIS (some $30,000)
to construct three new very basic structures.
The struggle over the future of the Land of Israel is being waged on
the hilltops of Judea and Samaria.
We, with God's help and with your help, will ignore all anti-Zionist
and anti-Jewish decrees and continue to build our Biblical homeland.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Destruction of Jewish Homes
Throwing a Jewish family out of their home and on top of that hiring arabs to remove the family's possessions with their filthy hands is an outrage to say the least. I'm sure these arabs were gleeful. Keep building Jewish homes and throw the muslim occupiers out of Israel and get rid of the leftists collaborators in government.
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