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The Israeli military commander of Hebron, colonel Yehuda Fuchs, has
imposed a curfew on the poor Palestinians who live in the old city of
Hebron many times. He also closed the main entrance gates to the old
market. Nothing has changed in the city of Hebron since 1997. The
occupational military commanders who served in Hebron have changed, but
the city still lives the same curfews, the same suffering, the same
regular attacks by the Jewish settlers and the Israeli soldiers. The
Israeli headquarter in the city and under the various commanders is
going ahead in implementing the old Zionist plan of turning Hebron into
a "Jewish only" city. Whatever happened in the city, from both the
Israeli and the Palestinian side, it was always used by the IDF to
"create facts on the ground". For example, the massacre perpetrated in
1995 by the psychopath from New York, Baruch Goldstein, resulted in the
destruction and expropriation of the vegetable market, the closure of
Al-Shuhada street and in 12 years of continued, almost uninterrupted
curfew for Palestinians in the whole city. The plan to depopulate,
ethnically cleanse Hebron, is old and has been in implementation since
1967. The specific style of its implementaiton changes from commander to
Israeli commander, but what is common is "timing" and "apparent
legitimacy": any excuse is used to expropriate a house here, kill
somebody there, arrest a group elsewhere, steal some land, ... and if no
excuse is found, then some incident is created by the settlers. In this
way, supposed "legitimacy" is given to theft and murder with so-called
"military orders". A jewish religious extremist from New York has
arrived and is without house ? No problem. Create an incident, provoke
the Palestinians, kill somebody. The result is always the same: the
occupation commander of the day, Shamni, Tivon, Weinberg, Fuchs or
whatever their name, issues a "military order" to expropriate this or
that coveted house or piece of land. The owners are kicked out, or shot
(or dynamited or bulldozed or knifed or clubbed ...) on the spot if they
resist, eventually the property is declared "abandoned" and ownership is
given by Israel, which has no jurisdiction in Palestinian lands, to the
"religious" nut who came from far away to thrive in crime.
Yehuda Fuchs,
the angry man at the right, is the new occupier of Hebron
The "Shamni-Fuchs"
road between Tel-Rumeidah and Al-Shuhada Street.
In 1997, when the Israeli military commander was colonel Gadi Shamni, he
had made a tour with the Israeli civil administration Commander Colonel
Baruch Nagar and other officers. They were joined by an engineering team
from Tel Rumeidah and walked until the Muslim cemetery. The commander’s
tour was not through the main Al-Shuhada Street. The tour was from the
Palestinian gardens in Tel-Rumeidah until the cemetery. The engineering
team had some maps and made remarks during the whole tour. I was an
eyewitness of this tour, I followed the commanders, and I understood
that they were drawing a map to open a new road as a link between Tel-Romeidah
and Al-Shuhada street. I wrote about this tour (here,
in Arabic). When I published my article two days later, the Israeli
civil administration was not happy. A "Colonel Alex" from the office of
Baruch Nagar called me saying that there was no need to publish this
news as it would "create a negative a atmosphere against peace". I
understood from this officer "Alex" that this plan would not be
implemented then. The road was made some years later. The usual
"military orders" were distributed by the end of 2006, and it is now
completed, about 10 years later.
What happens in Hebron under Colonel Fuchs is not new. His big
"achievement" was to open a new road for the settlers passing through
Palestinians agricultural lands. This road was a link between Kach
settlements in Tel Rumeida and Avraham Avino. Actually Al-Shuhada Street
is a link between these settlements, as this street is for exclusive use
by the Jewish settlers since the massacre commited by the terrorist
Goldstein, who murdered 29 and injuring dozens of others at the Abraham
Cave. Other achievements of Fuchs was confiscating (or actually,
stealing) the Al-Aqtab mosque at the Vegetable market, and destroying
dozens of Palestinian homes near the Abraham cave and replacing them
with a new road as a link between the mosque and the Jewish settlement
Kiryat Araba, and finally on the 18th of March 2007, occupying the
Palestinian building of Fayez Al-Rajaby by Jewish settlers. Off course
there were more "achievements" in the city, about which nobody can
really say anything positive, such as the daily attacks, arrests and
murders committed by the Jewish settlers and soldiers.
Demo with children
of Hebron, in 2001, against the curfew imposed by the Israeli occupation
In 2001, during
the time of Dror Weinberg, I sent a letter signed by the poor children
of Hebron to former UN General Secretary Kofi Annan complaining about
the continued curfew, which by then had lasted 183 days. I also
organized a small demonstration with these children under 9 years in
front of their houses.An officer called "Shlomo" with first name from
Golani broke the hand of a man from the Abu-Hayeh family, who had been
watching over the children from a window. The officer did this because
he was not happy to see the man looking at the small demonstration of
children.
The unanswered
letter of the Hebronite children to Kofi Annan
Here (above) is the
letter which had send 2001 to the former U.N president Kofi Annan by the
poor children of this city. A copy of this letter was send to the
military former commander Dror Weinberg. But there was no answer.
Neither Kofi Annan nor anybody from the UN ever answered. To this day,
the genocide of Palestine continues under the watchful, approving eye of
the U.N., while that institution has the shamelessness to speak
sanctimoniously of "Human Rights". We Palestinians are not the first
victims of the U.N., nor will we be the last ones. This letter could as
well have been written today and to the new General Secretary, Ban Ki
Moon. The only question is if he would answer or we would see the same
indolence and cowardice.
These are the children of illegal Jewish settlers in Hebron. They carry
weapons since early
childhood and can kill any Palestinian whenever they want. They are
protected by the IDF.
This is a "Military Order" issued by the IDF to Palestinians. This is
how the Israeli government covers up land theft by "legalizing" it.
When will the U.N. insist that Israel comply to the 65 or so resolutions
which have been adopted by the U.N. General Assembly against Israel and
its criminal behavior ?
When will countries around the world stop financing this institution
which supports and covers up wars of aggression and genocide, as it has
repeatedly done ? Some examples of the attitude of the U.N. before
genocide and wars of aggression are Palestine, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and
currently Somalia / Ethiopia. In all of these cases, what happened or is
still going on could have been avoided, had the U.N. not studiously
looked the other way.
What goal does the U.N. pursue by looking away and thus supporting and
covering up genocide, in Palestine and elsewhere ?
Who does the U.N. serve when it supports and covers up genocide and wars
of aggression ?
When will the U.N. put in place an International Court of Justice which
will not allow criminal states like Israel to decide whether its
officials will be prosecuted ?
Israel has complied with exactly NONE of the conditions which it
accepted when it joined the U.N. - Why has Israel not been expulsed from
the U.N. ?
When will countries around the world understand that crimes against
humanity have nothing to do with politics and everything to do with
crime, and act accordingly ?
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