At the most extreme limits of Ramallah, in the middle of the West Bank, the village of Al-Mughair is located in the northeast of the city as a forgotten area. (90), which split the center of the village, and isolated the agricultural lands of the citizens from their homes.
The village of Al-Mughair, which overlooks the Jordan Valley, is famous for growing olives, grapes, wheat and almonds, and its population of 4000 people cannot currently cultivate their lands or graze their livestock in it, as it has turned into closed military areas, whose original owners are prevented from entering it, or even reaching To it, while the occupation annexed parts of it to the settlement units extending from the high mountains of the Mughair.
After the occupation of the West Bank and Jerusalem in 1967, the Al-Mughair village was declared a closed military zone, making it 90% of the land area of the village from the eastern side, in this area of isolation.
The changer borders the villages of Turmus'ayya and Khirbet Abu Falah from the west, and the village of Duma in the north, to the south of the village of Kafr Malik, and the Jordan Valley in the east. "No. 90" east of the village.
New blockade
The occupation was not satisfied with this extent of deforming the village of Al-Mughair, where a new siege is being imposed on it, by establishing two new outposts on Palestinian land, out of a total of four settlements newly built by the occupation in the West Bank.
"The occupation government and the Israeli civil administration have exploited the state of emergency that the world is witnessing as a result of the (Corona) pandemic in a terrible way to accelerate the settlement process," Walid Assaf, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization's Wall and Resistance Authority, said in press statements on April 10. In the West Bank, where settlers have built four new outposts. ”
Assaf shows that the four outposts that were constructed at the end of last March are distributed as follows: a focus in the Bethlehem Governorate in the south of the West Bank, a focus in the northern Jordan Valley, located in the northeast of the West Bank, and two near the town of Mugheer.
For his part, the head of the Al-Mughair Village Council, Amin Abu Ali, said in an exclusive interview with "Emirates Today": "At the end of last March, the bulldozers of the occupation began expansion operations for the (Shvut Rachel) settlement, which is near the village of Al-Mughair, which devours large areas of Its lands, according to a decision by the Minister of War in the Occupying Power, Naftali Bennet, with the aim of establishing communication between the two settlements (Mevu Shilo) and (Shivot Rachel) and the rest of the outposts near them, up to Alon Street, where bulldozers carry out bulldozing of the village's lands, villages Nearby, new roads are being built to build outposts. ”
He explained that the two new outposts will be established, one of which is to the west of the village on the borders of the village of Turmus Aya, and the second to the north near the village of Douma.
Abu Alia continues his saying, “The Mughair is the furthest village in the city of Ramallah, located on the borders of contact with the northern Jordan Valley, and all of its lands fall within the classified area (C), which is under full control of the occupation, according to the Oslo agreement, and today we are depriving other areas of our lands. In the interest of the settlements. ”
Devour
The head of Al-Mughair Village Council pointed out that Alon Street and the outposts had eaten a large part of Al-Mughair village, which has an area of 40 thousand dunums, and what remains is only 6000 dunums for the residents, while the occupation allows them to build in an area not exceeding one square kilometer.
Terrorism and aggression
Al-Mughayer village was not spared the attacks of the occupation forces, and the settlers living in Israeli centers and settlements, especially the "Adi Aad" outpost, where it witnessed many attacks on residents, preventing them from entering and cultivating their lands, in an attempt to deport them, and control the rest of the village's lands. .
The head of the Mugheer Village Council, Amin Abu Alia, said: “The attempt to reach the residents of their agricultural lands, in the vicinity of Alon Street and the outposts, poses a great danger to them. Once the citizens approach their lands, the settlers call the occupation forces to prevent their entry, while they are beaten and beaten. Shooting.
It indicates that the settlers' attacks against the village resulted in the injury and injury of 200 Palestinian residents of Al-Mughair in the past two years, in addition to burning seasonal agricultural crops and cutting hundreds of olive trees that are older than the establishment of the occupation state.
For his part, the farmer, Rafeeq Al-Na’san, from Al-Mughair village, says: “I own agricultural land adjacent to the (Adi Aad) outpost, but because of that I am denied entry, the occupation prevents me from building agricultural roads to reach it, while settlers’ attacks on my farmers cut down 200 trees. Olives during the past months ».
It indicates that the occupation imposes heavy financial fines on him, as a result of his attempt to reach his land and the introduction of agricultural mechanisms to grow crops, as these fines reach 200 thousand shekels.