Ramallah- The Earth turns along an area Palestine To an unequal confrontation arena between its defenseless owners and the settlers who have become their automatic weapons, they are lengthy and width, supported by their extremist government ministers and the bulldozers of their motivated army at every moment to carry out a crime.
This is the case of the homeland and its inhabitants in every spot of it, and it is not an easy “Saya” in the northeast of the city Ramallah An exception, it was easy to fertilize its areas, and in the spring it turns into a park for the neighboring villages, but reaching it now has become an adventure and a risky journey.
The plain is located between 3 villages, Abu Falah, Al -Mughair, and Termasiah Al -Wasat West BankAnd the people of the neighboring villages used to cultivate it with wheat and it was an outlet for them, but it became more like a prison after it cordoned it EstablishmentsAnd a large part of it turned into ashes recently after the settlers burned it.
Since the beginning of the year 2015, settlers began setting up settlement foci around it (The focus is a new settlement nucleus)And with the outbreak of the extermination of the extermination of the Gaza Strip, its construction escalated in the place until the plain surrounded by all directions.
And it has become an easy way – whose area ranges between 6 and 7 thousand dunums (the dunum is equal to one thousand square meters) – the focus of ambitions for the settlers, knowing that its owners have ownership papers for their land For the Palestinian AuthorityAnd the security authority shares it with the Israeli occupation.
Local initiatives
The Palestinian Harun Ezzat from the village of Abu Falah talks about the suffering of the people of his village, and how they became alone in the face of the danger, while giving up the local Palestinian authorities to provide any protection for them to confront settlers’ violence and violations.
Ezzat continues in his interview with Al -Jazeera Net that the official authorities do not provide any protection for citizens in the face of the settlers’ daily attacks, so it was necessary to move to find means of protection, and the people had to think about self -initiatives to protect themselves and the remaining farms in the plain.
It indicates that official interventions in these cases do not exceed coordination with the Israeli side to allow the people to reach their agricultural lands for only one day.
Mostly – Ezzat says, “This coordination is more harmful. The settlers are in advance of any movement, which gives them the opportunity to collect themselves and attack the people collectively.”
Among the initiatives in the vicinity of Sahl, the people of the three villages (Abu Falah, Al -Mughair and Termasia) met, and they made an appeal to all the villagers to collectively go to the easy to complete the harvest, which prevented settlers from completing the burning of the remaining crops.
The meeting decided a series of methods of confrontation and resilience as they described it, including:
- The collective and permanent presence in the areas and lands subject to attacks so that the settlers are not unique to their owners.
- Empty landing and re -cultivating the areas that are vandalized and burned, through cooperation with local institutions.
This is supervised by an active operations room to communicate with all international, local and official institutions, to compensate the citizen in the event of harm to be able to continue, and the most important pillars of these efforts is to cooperate with the local community from the donations of the people of the town themselves.
Battle of existence
Among the self -protection plans also is to cooperate with the Palestinian Red Crescent and the Civil Defense to train volunteers inside the village and provide them with equipment for rapid intervention.
The mayor of Al -Mughir, Amin Abu Alia, stresses that the battle with the settlers is the battle of existence, and that the aim of these practices is to deport the residents from their land in order to complete the seizure of them and expand settlement outposts.
“We know that the price will be dear, we have lost martyrs during the confrontation of the settlers in the past, but we do not have another option, the situation these days is very complicated, as the settler is a soldier with a military rank and holds a weapon permanently.”
When asked about the popular committees that were formed in the past, Abu Alia replied that “the occupation is targeting everyone who is involved in these committees, which made us replace them with groups via social media that launch the alarm in the event of any attack on the village and the surrounding villages.”
It is not the first experience
This was not the first time that the people of the village of Al -Mughair and the villages surrounding their lands were not deprived. In the first olive season after the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip (fall 2023) the population was exposed to the same practices and was deprived of reaching their lands that the outposts are surrounded and surrounded.
In the last olive harvest season (2024), occupying practices pushed them to launch a self -initiative and not to wait for coordination and prior ear from the occupation by gathering all the people and heading to one olive spot in one day, and imposing a reality during which 80% of the people managed to pick olive trees.
However, these measures and plans will not be completed – as Harun Ezzat says – except with the support of the official authorities, by providing ambulances or civil defense to help the residents address these attacks.
He added that it is not reasonable for settlers to burn the plains frequently, and that the residents remain waiting for fire engines to reach the area.
Feasibility of initiatives
In turn, activist Suhail Suleiman – from the “popular campaign to resist the wall and settlement” in the eastern Ramallah region – indicates that these initiatives have already had good results, especially in light of the official default by providing protection for citizens, but – as it emphasizes – succeeds in large population gatherings, while they are useless in small gatherings.
In his speech to Al -Jazeera Net, Suleiman continued that the first sin was in the Oslo agreement that divided the lands according to the occupation classifications, and the citizen found in the areas of “C” (an Israeli civil and security control area) himself alone and no one is responsible for it.
According to Suleiman, these initiatives highlight the importance of the protection and guarding committees, and not to remain limited to the Palestinians only, revealing an endeavor by the popular resistance activists to launch an international solidarity campaign and the recruitment of foreign solidarity, which gives momentum to these initiatives, especially the limited number of gatherings that the settlers are now unique, especially in the south of Hebron and the traveler of Yatta and the Jordan Valley.
Regarding what can be submitted by the official authorities, Suleiman says that the official authorities should call for a national workshop in which all components of the Palestinian people meet to develop practical plans to confront the displacement of the population, and to turn these lands into attractions for citizens by directing all Palestinian projects and budgets to them.
Since the outbreak of the war on Gaza Strip in October 7 2023 To date, more than 60 small Palestinian gatherings were forcibly left from their areas of residence and grazing their sheep due to the settlers’ repeated attacks.