Qaryut village, south of Nablus, is living in the shadow of the Corona crisis due to the attacks of settlers of the "Ayla" and Shvut Rachel settlements on the lands of Qaryut and suffocating them, as settlers practice their acts of revenge towards the people of Qaryut in retaliation, whether direct attacks Or indirectly, with health attacks, sometimes, and attacks on citizens, again.
Haj Ahmed Jabr and the journey of continuous suffering
Haj Ahmad Jabr, who owns land near the settlement of "Ayla", is constantly suffering from the aggressors of the settlers, while he was heading to his land that the settlers are trying to control, and he put a tent near it, while his trees were uprooted and cut more than five times, according to what the settlement specialist clarifies. Al-Qaryouti for "Al-Quds".
Hajj Jabr was exposed a few days ago to uprooting his estimated number of 48 olive trees. He is also prevented from entering his land and expelled from it. Until today, the Israeli link to Hajj Jabr does not allow him to go to the land to plow it due to the causes of the Corona virus, but the settlers are cutting down trees and destroying the lands of the usurped farmers, According to Al-Qaryouti.
Al-Qaryouti calls on the legal and official authorities to intervene to stop the violations taking place against the land and its owners.
Hateful health in the lands of citizens
The families of (Ayla) and (Shvut Rachel) constitute a healthy objection towards the lands of the citizens in Qaryut.
According to Al-Qaryouti, the landowners are appealing to all legal authorities to stop these settlement violations against their lands, and to remove these settlement disasters from their lands, noting that they have become unable to enter their lands because of the sewage density, which led to the destruction of dozens of trees in their lands.
Revenge from the people
The occupation and the settlers lie in wait for the people of Qaryut in order to take revenge on them, as they fight their legal battle to recover the lands of the village, where the people succeeded in recovering more than a hundred acres and liberate them, while the people fought more than 120 marches against the confiscation of their lands, while that revenge comes for the people to continue plowing the land located Among the surrounding settlements, where Al-Qaryouti indicates that the settlers want the residents to raise the white flag in front of their shelters and confiscate the lands by force.
According to Al-Qaryouti, one of the violations that have become serious on the lands of Qaryut and the surrounding villages is the attempt by the so-called Israeli "Civil Administration" to expand areas of "C" subject to administrative and security occupation, by amending the previous maps, and this appeared in the olive season as farmers headed To pick olives in their lands located in Area B, and the occupation prevented them from entering them even through prior coordination, and later it became evident that the so-called "Civil Administration" changed land locations and expanded areas of "C" by changing the classification of areas "B".
Corona exploitation to accelerate the annexation steps
As for the attacks on the occupation and settlers taking place on the ground, especially in the time of Corona, Al-Karouti asserts that it has become clear to the public that the occupation is taking advantage of the epidemic in order to accelerate its steps of confiscation and annexation in all regions.
Al-Qaryouti says: “The Corona epidemic in relation to the occupation is the golden opportunity to achieve its settlement plans on Palestinian land, considering that the world is busy fighting the epidemic,” referring to the plans of the upcoming Israeli government to annex lands classified as “C” and the lands behind the apartheid wall near settlements and their fences the wish.
He points to a serious issue, which is the war of caravans by settlers on land, by installing them on the surrounding hills, which are empty caravans, "but in the absence of legal and humanitarian institutions, the settler is practicing expulsion of citizens, and controls the land he wants."
