Jayyus - no vaccines so there are many sick people.

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Jayyus

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Updates during Corona

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Daniela Gordonת Telephone report with N. Translator: Charles K.

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Apr-7-2021

Afternoon

N. proudly reported he’d received his second vaccination today. He’s aware of the “corona closure info-icon ” of the checkpoints but hasn’t personally experienced it. Even though there were a number of cases in the village, including in his family. His son and their family were sick, as well as his daughter who’s a nurse. She caught it when she returned to work at the hospital and also infected her two-year-old daughter. Thank God they’ve all recovered. You know, he says, we don’t have any vaccines so there are many sick people.

He wasn’t near any of his ill relatives, so he’s working. He’s in Modi’in these days, because “that’s what’s available,” and since there aren’t many problems at the checkpoints these days he returns home on Friday and returns to work Sunday morning.

I’m amazed at his steadfastness in helping organize transportation for those recovering. He found volunteers in the north, south and central parts of the West Bank so he now receives fewer phone calls – usually when there are problems to be solved.

N. sends warm regards to everyone in Machsom Watch.

Why do we take the trouble to report in Corona times as well?

Because democracy’s watchdogs have fallen asleep on their own watch, so Israeli citizens have no idea what is actually happening in the Occupied Territories, especially now.

Day and night, Israeli soldiers (as the State’s emissaries) help extreme settler-colonists take the law into their own hands, unhampered. They do not stop even in days of a raging pandemic and do not hesitate to harm Palestinians – their bodies, property, and sources of livelihood.

Unceasing harassment of the weakened Palestinian population inflicts psychological harm as well. All – from babies through and including the elderly and the ill – are open prey to Jewish violence and terrorism which the settler-colonists are only too eager to exert.

We of MachsomWatch will not cease to report, certainly not now during these Corona times and under the threat of annexation, about the settlers’ increased rampages, those who hurry to set facts on the ground helped by the Israeli army.

Israel rules the West Bank, and by force of the Geneva Convention, article no. 27, it is committed to enforcing law and order there. The inhabitants of these Occupied Territories have the legal right “to decent treatment of their body and dignity, and should be especially protected against any act of violence”.

Ironically, this is not at all upheld.

Nor shall we cooperate with the commonplace ignoring of the Palestinian people’s suffering, and with the Israeli public’s indifference to it. We shall continue to follow up closely and report the goings-on in the West Bank, in its villages and encampments.

No one should be able to say ‘We knew nothing, we heard nothing’

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Jayyus

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Jayyus Village. Some of its lands were separated from the village when the separation barrier was first built. The wall is very close to the village itself and access to a large part of its lands was exproptiated. After a petition to the High Court that was convinced that there was no security ground for the route of the barrier, the barrier was moved and some of the lands were returned to the village.