A seventy resists the greed of the occupation to displace him and confiscate his land
5 dunums in the Jordan Valley for a trip to Paris and two million dollars
5 dunams out of 220 dunams are the object of the occupation’s ambitions.
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Seventy Hael Basharat refuses to leave the land of his ancestors.
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Bisharat's house is facing demolition and removal.
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For 42 years ago, Palestinian Hayel Bisharat, 76, lived on a high hill in Khirbet Humsa al-Tahta in the Palestinian Jordan Valley near the Jordanian border, continuing his father’s journey in planting trees and agricultural crops, and herding livestock and sheep, but Bisharat was unable to continue the path of his fathers. and grandparents, as the occupation surprised him with demolitions of the homes he was building, and the confiscation of the lands he owned since 1996 until this moment.
Triple Siege
Today, this 70-year-old lives on top of the five-dunum hill, accompanied by only ten members of his family, after the occupation abandoned 38 of his children and their families, who were forced to leave and move to live in neighboring villages, due to the high rate of demolition and confiscation against Hajj Besharat’s land and property. He also owns 15 dunums of the total area of Khirbet Humsa al-Tahta, which is 2,000 dunums, which he uses as agricultural land and pastures for the heads of cattle and sheep he owns.
The rest of the Haj Bisharat family live besieged on the mountaintop on three sides, surrounded by the settlement of Hamra, a training camp for the occupation forces, and the Israeli military checkpoint of Hamra, in addition to the continued construction of outposts on parts of the confiscated lands of Homs, and the residents are subjected to continuous attacks by settlers.
This Israeli siege, which aims to control the area of residence of this Palestinian, has reached the level of financial inducement, as the occupation continues to offer tempting offers with huge sums, in exchange for the Bisharat family’s abandonment of the hill they have inhabited for decades, which this man rejects.
Tourist trip and big money
"Emirates Today" moved to Khirbet Humsa al-Tahta, where Bisharat lives with his wife and son Mahmoud and his family, and two of his daughters (with determination), where he was leaning on an olive tree adjacent to sheep and cattle pens, which are his source of income.
Bisharat says: “Three years ago, the forces of the Israeli liaison service were permanently present at the Hamra military checkpoint, which is only 250 meters from our land, and on the same days, I was surprised that three officers stormed the hill above it. Two million dollars to get out of this hill, and my response was that this money is not worth an olive tree that I planted in the land of my ancestors.”
The Palestinian elderly man also received another offer from the occupation, to tempt him to leave his land, and about that, he says: “One day, the officer of the Israeli Civil Administration came to me and told me to take this amount and leave this area to Paris for tourism for a while, but the response I always have is in return for These attempts are the absolute refusal, as I told him that this amount is invaluable to an olive on the branch of one of the trees that I have planted for many years.”
This refusal was met by the occupation by tightening the screws on the family of the elderly Bisharat, by issuing more decisions to demolish their homes and remove the sheep pens they own, in addition to the escalation of the settlers’ attacks on the Palestinian family’s property and its vast agricultural crops, according to the seventy man.
The elderly Palestinian pointed out that the occupation aims to control his land on which he resides, in preparation for the theft of his 200 dunums of agricultural land, which he considers strategic areas, in order to annex them in the interest of establishing new outposts belonging to the settlement of Al-Hamra.
Basharat goes on to say: “The occupation claims that our lands are located within archaeological areas, but in fact it is greedy to plunder it, because it overlooks and overlooks the Hamra military checkpoint, the Hamra settlement and the occupation army camp, in addition to using it as a control area to impose its control on those coming from the city of Jericho and other cities. West Bank".
Despite this, the occupation’s attempts to control the land of the seventy-year-old man through material inducement are still continuing, through siege and restrictions, demolition and continuous operations and orders, and these and those are two sides of the same coin, related to one goal in a different way, which is the displacement of the Bisharat family and the confiscation of its land, and its inclusion in settlement expansion projects .
The elderly Palestinian says: "I recently received orders to demolish the houses we live in, and to remove them completely, in addition to stopping construction in the sheep pens that we built during this period, in addition to the exposure of agricultural crops to bulldozing, theft and burning by settlers on an almost daily basis."
escalating harassment
Bisharat stood next to his house on a high hill pointing to the remnants of the demolition of his homes and sheep pens that he owned at the hands of the occupation forces during the last period.
The Palestinian elderly man returned again to sit next to the perennial olive tree, to continue his speech, saying: "My family and all the residents of Khirbet Humsa Al-Tahta are facing double suffering, as a result of the arbitrary practices of the settlement companies and the occupation soldiers."
He added: “The most severe aspect of suffering that plagues our lives is the refusal of the Israeli Electricity Company to extend the electricity lines to our homes, in addition to preventing the occupation from using the water of the groundwater well that it dug decades ago. In addition, the Israeli Water Company (Mekorot) loots the water sources in Khirbet Humsa al-Tahta, She also refuses to sell it to us.”
Basharat continues by saying: “We have to walk distances exceeding thousands of meters towards the villages of (Atouf) and (Ain Shibla), to buy water tanks, the price of which is 25 shekels per cup, to irrigate trees and water the heads of cattle and sheep, where we need five cups a day.” .
The matter did not stop there, according to the elderly Bisharat. The occupation brought large numbers of settlers to Al-Hamra settlement after conducting settlement expansion inside it, and they are currently at the forefront of the attack against the family and the Palestinian population.
The Palestinian man points out that the occupation allowed a settler who came last July to the “Hamra” settlement, to build outposts and caravanserais, in an area close to the residents’ homes, in addition to releasing hundreds of sheep he owned in the vast pastures of the Palestinian family.
Bisharat says: “Three years ago, the forces of the Israeli liaison service were present at the Hamra military checkpoint, which is only 250 meters from our land, and in the same days, I was surprised that three officers stormed the hill, and they identified themselves as being from this apparatus, and they offered an offer of two million dollars in exchange for leaving the hill. This hill, and my response was that this money was not worth the olive tree I planted.”
• The occupation allowed a settler who came last July to the "Al-Hamra" settlement to build outposts and caravanserais in an area close to the residents' homes, in addition to releasing hundreds of sheep he owned in the vast pastures of the Palestinian family.
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