‘Public Execution’: Israeli control point terrorizes the Palestinian city | It contains news

Deir Sharaf, busy west coast – The Israeli military control point is dominated by the lives of the village of Seljan Deira Sharaf, who already live in the shadow of the illegal Israeli settlement.

The permanently planted metal blockade hits the main road of occupied West Bank Village, which connects six cities to the north of the western coast and is the main entrance to Nablus.

Control point, initially barrier of dirt in October 2022, is a cold reminder of the threat of violence that floats over thousands of Palestinians forced to travel through 800 or so West Bank Control Points And road blockages every day.

“Today, if you make one wrong move when you go through the control point, you will be shot,” said Villager Adam Ali, a 55-year-old father of a four-member father who saw this first hand.

He witnessed a shooting of November 18, 18-year-old Walid Husse’s soldiers who then stood while bleeding until his death.

Hussein is accused of carrying a knife, but witnesses tell a different story.

“The boy was unarmed and did nothing,” Adam said. “Israeli soldiers shot him and watched him die.”

‘Public Execution’

Hussein was from the Ein Beit El-Ma refugee campsite in Nablus-in the past, his memorials are adorned with walls and hung on the street corners.

More witnesses, including Adam and his 15-year-old son Mohammed, said Walid were asked to stop and get out of his car by soldiers. When he took a step towards them, he was shot several times.

They say he did not immediately succumb to the bullets.

“The ambulance tried to reach him, but they blocked her,” Mohammed said. “His blood was everywhere. It was an execution.”

No soldiers were injured.

Local and international media reported that witnesses did not see the weapon and that there was no intention of harming the soldiers from Walid.

In the neighborhood of Hussein, they once called the home testing of the Israeli narrative of the knife, saying that it was not the first time that the army had used such an excuse for a public “execution”.

“We live in hell – the idea of ​​going becomes harder to fight,” Adam said. “Life is so difficult – I hope death will be gracious.”

The villagers describe the “life of terror” dominated by Israeli soldiers and settlers who flow from a nearby illegal settlement Shavei Shomron, built in 1977 and equipped with sirens of Air Raid, military rim and safety 24/7.

The illegal settlement is located in the center of the extreme right of the settlers on the west coast, hosting more than 1,000 immigrants, including a politician who attended the inauguration of the President of the United States of Donald Trump.

Mayor of Shadi Abu Halaweh says that on the occupied west coast almost nowhere does it now exist anywhere like Deir Sharaf, shared by a checkpoint that separated the east from the West and transformed the lives of 3000 villagers overnight.

First established at about the same time as Lion resistance group in nablus and subsequent Israeli suppression on it.

Armed soldiers patrol all day, stopping cars and conducting searches – often involve intimidation and violence.

Abu Halaweh says that two people were killed and three seriously injured at a checkpoint since being set up – and violent incidents increased from Hamas’s 7th October 2023, attacking southern Israel and Israeli next war against Gaza.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli forces and settlers in Ublus’ gurmation were killed by almost 100 people, including Deir Sharaf, according to the United Nations data.

The long -awaited agreement on the termination of the fire in Gaza took up last month, but the murder continued across the West Coast, Israel watched to expand his attacks, and his officials said that military deployment could last until next year.

The fears of ethnic cleansing are encouraged by the expense of 50,000 Palestinians from their homes in refugee camps in besieged Jenin and Tulkarem – an operation that threatens to break the Nablus region next.

‘I feel I could have been killed in my home’

At the time of tension, the last place that Palestinians want to be to be near the checkpoint.

The Israelis say that the control points are intended to prevent the activities of armed resistance and monitors.

But the Palestinians on the West Coast say they are designed to control their movement and the training of fear among motorcyclists and nearby residents – while protecting immigrants and providing safe entry of Israeli military vehicles.

There are not many homes or companies on the west side of the checkpoint – and those who are isolated and prone to settlers’ attacks.

Abu Halaweh said that the residents of the western side live in constant fear of settlers, who “always sabotage”, steal and destroy property.

The Israeli Human Rights Monitor B’tselem says the barrier prevents about 50 families living in the western part of the village in the rest of the car.

Basil Wawi, a 40-year-old government employee and the father of a two-year-old twin girl, described the horror of life on the wrong side of the division.

“Ago [the checkpoint]They would occasionally stop cars. Now they search you, your phone, and sometimes arrest you just go home. “

He recounted Attacker attacks in November 2023 When the settlers broke into his home in daylight and set it on fire.

The settlers, Wawi added, protected the army, who blocked him for three hours to return to his home – shooting at all who tried to help him or opposed the conquerors.

“Most people don’t know what to feel like you could be killed in your own home at any time,” he said.

“I gave up my life, but I thank God that my children were still alive – they were only two months old when we were attacked.”

After being attacked by his house, he said, the immigrants destroyed the companies and threw stones at the villagers. The Wawi family fled to his uncle’s house nearby while he remained to defend their home.

“I feel like immigrants could appear at any time,” he added. “I stay up to five or six in the morning most of the night … [it’s] whipping.”

Wawi says that the settlers in cars tried to hit him three times as he walked the road west of the checkpoint.

It was More than 1800 attacks of immigrants on the west coast From October 2023 – on average four a day. The Israeli State of 700,000 Western Bank immigrants from October 7 has issued more than 120,000 firearms.

Killing olives

Adam’s family lost part of her life in Israel: “A return around 2009 seized our country, where we raised 116 olives. The land used to produce 80 to 90 cans of olive oil, but now everything has been taken. “

He says his father’s health problems are exacerbated by the stress of his country’s attack – and led to his death.

Olive trees are intertwined with Palestinian identity and undergo a rural economy. Perhaps therefore they are so often subject to settlers’ attacks or land attacks.

Israel seized more than one square kilometer (0.4 square mile) from the village of Deir Sharaf, Burke and ancient Sebasty – most of it to spread Shavei Shomron.

“The settlers are those who rule,” said Abu Halaweh. “Even the army can no longer control them.”

And adds that the Israeli government continuously takes more territories by Deira Sharaf, often justifies it as necessary for “security” reasons or to build infrastructure for settlers, such as roads or extensions of the settlement.

According to the applied research institute – Jerusalem, Israel took 236 dunums (about 58 hectares) from Deir Sharaf to build a illegal settlement of Shavei Shomron and 16 Dunums (4 hectares) for a military base near the settlement.

‘There’s no life here’

Abu Halaweh said the imposition of a checkpoint cost a lot of educational opportunities for young people and every opportunity to escape.

In November, Adam’s 15-year-old son Mohammed recalls that he saw from his windows for windows and soldiers from the bedroom window that fired the residents who defended themselves with stones.

The villagers fainted because the tear gas was scheduled by soldiers, the steam from the stores set up and the tires were burned to distract shots from the checkpoint.

Adam refused to leave his trade and his home – which were exactly in the fire line. Instead, he and Mohamma gathered stones to throw if someone tried to get in.

Mohammed said, “It’s our home. If we leave him and they attack him, who will defend him?”

Despite his youth, Mohammed remembers time-before that Israel switched to all a hard line, a Jewish-Supremist position-where the soldiers practiced restraint, shooting in the rubber bullets, not a deadly metal, the checkpoint did not exist, and the settlers even entered his father’s store.

He says that people from the outside of Palestine are often not aware of the rates of this change – and surprising levels of coexistence, which is now just a remote memory.

“Now the soldiers and settlers see Palestinians as animals. For them, murder is easy,” he said. “I don’t want to leave Deir Sharaf forever, but there is no life here.”

“And it will only get worse.”

Some names in this article have been changed for the safety of the individual.