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 Saturday 5th
July, 8pm
Lecture by Jamal Darawi,
and Grazia Careccia about the situation of Al-Nu’eman village.
Jamal Darawi is the head
of the Popular Committee against the Wall in Al-Nu'eman village and Grazia
Careccia is a field researcher for Al-Haq.
Al Nu'man is a village
of 200 inhabitants between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. In 1967 Israel annexed its land to the Jerusalem Municipality,
while the residents were issued West Bank
residence IDs.
Since the erection of
the Separation Wall in 2004, this "technical blunder" has turned
their life into a nightmare—they are trapped between Jerusalem, which they are
prohibited from entering, being West Bank residents, and the separation wall, which
severs them from the rest of the occupied West Bank.
Their only connection
with the outside world is through a checkpoint manned by armed guards. To go to
school, to work, to buy groceries, they depend on the whims of the soldiers in
this checkpoint.
No one is permitted
through other than the inhabitants of the village. Al-Nu'eman has become a
prison under the sky.
At the same time,
expansion of the Jewish settlement of Har Homa and the planned Jerusalem ring road will skirt the village to
the west and east, demolishing yet more homes.
The inhabitants have
done all they can to fight their village's imprisonment and appealed to the
Israeli High Court, which sentence is waited for this 9th of July at
11.30.
Presence
at the court meeting will demonstrate that the villagers have not been
forgotten and that the negative implications of the occupation and separation
barrier are evident.
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