1/ Les forces israéliennes retiennent toujours le corps du militant palestinien Odeh #Hadalin, tué la semaine dernière par un colon en #Cisjordanie occupée.
2/ Sept membres de sa famille, qui ont été témoins de l'assassinat, sont toujours détenus. Une infirmière qui a tenté de le sauver a été expulsée, ainsi que d'autres témoins internationaux.
3/ Des dizaines de femmes d'Umm al-Khair ont entamé une grève de la faim pour demander justice.
4/ Un juge israélien a levé l'assignation à résidence de #YinonLevi, le principal suspect, affirmant que le dossier est faible et qu'il pourrait s'agir de « légitime défense ».
5/ Levi est propriétaire d'un avant-poste illégal en Cisjordanie et d'une entreprise de démolition qui travaille en collaboration avec l'armée israélienne.
6/ Au début de cette année, l'administration Trump a levé les sanctions de l'ère Biden contre Yinon #Levi, malgré sa longue histoire de violence et de harcèlement contre les Palestiniens.

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From Kerem-navot -- Israeli NGO established in 2012, which monitors and carries out research on Israeli land policy in the #WestBank:

#YinonLevy was born in Jerusalem around 32 years ago. Odeh #Hadalin was born around 31 years ago in the small Bedouin village of Umm al-Kheir in the South Hebron Hills. Last Tuesday, Yinon Levy killed Odeh Hadalin. This was not a one-time event but the result of many systemic failures.

Yinon #Levy owns a company that operates several heavy construction machines. Odeh Hadalin was an English teacher at the school in the Bedouin village where he was born and lived his entire life. From video footage and eyewitness accounts, we can piece together what happened that day. But in this post, we want to talk about some of the decisions that ultimately led to the moment when Yinon Levy shot and killed Odeh Hadalin — most of which were made long before either of them was born.

In 1980, #Israel established a “Nachal” military outpost called Carmel. It was built on lands belonging to the Palestinian town of Yatta, in the southeastern West Bank. Near that site, several Bedouin families from the Hadalin clan had been living. These families had arrived after being expelled by Israel from the northern Negev area during and after 1948. A few years later, the Nachal military outpost became the settlement of Carmel, which is home today to around 650 settlers. In 1983, Israel confiscated about 2,200 dunams of Yatta’s lands by declaring them as State Land. These lands were handed over to the settlement of Carmel and today form its “municipal jurisdiction”.

Over time, the settlement expanded and became more extreme and violent. In the most recent elections, for instance, 86% of the votes there went to Ben Gvir and Smotrich. The rest were divided between Likud, Shas, and Ayelet Shaked (there used to be such a politician). In short, you get the idea of the type of settlement and settlers we’re talking about.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian village of Umm al-Kheir also grew — despite the army and Civil Administration’s ongoing attempts to choke the community through lack of planning, denial of basic infrastructure, repeated raids, and house demolitions. As a result, these two communities have been living just a few dozens of meters apart for decades. Nowhere else in the West Bank settlers and Palestinians live in such proximity.

Despite this close proximity, the disparity in quality of life between the two communities is unfathomable. A visit to the area — no matter which side of the fence you stand on — is the kind of sight that wounds both the eyes and the heart. Assuming you have one.

This situation is the result of deliberate policy, from which countless administrative and planning decisions have stemmed. One of them was to expropriate the lands surrounding the village of Umm al-Kheir in a way that would suffocate the village and its residents’ ability to live off agriculture and herding. And since these lands were seized and transferred to the settlers, they can now do whatever they want with them — including build something 30 meters away from the village homes. Their “right,” no?

And when settlers want to build, they hire people like Yinon Levy, who makes his living from this system. And what do people like Yinon Levy do when working near Palestinian villages? They deliberately drive their bulldozers into privately owned Palestinian land — not yet officially expropriated — in order to provoke, humiliate, and destroy. And when tensions rise, what do people like Levy do? They draw their pistols, start shooting — and sometimes kill someone who happened to be 30 meters away, someone who posed no threat.

Yinon Levy is just a contractor — a particularly violent one — whose job is to execute the policy that every Israeli government since 1967 has promoted in one form or another. That policy is called apartheid in every other part of the world. And that apartheid is gradually shifting into a policy of ethnic cleansing. That’s why Odeh Hadalin lies dead, while Yinon Levy smiles in court and now sits comfortably at home. Yinon Levy knows that if he’s punished at all, the sentence will be laughable. He knows the apartheid regime will ensure its contractors can continue rampaging — and occasionally, shooting and killing along the way.

#KeremNavot - Naboth’s Vineyard
Naboth’s Vineyard (Kerem Navot) is an Israeli NGO established in 2012, which monitors and carries out research on Israeli land policy in the #WestBank.

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