פורום ארץ הצבי

And the joke is on you

''Jayyous, a part of Qalqilya Governate, is a town of 3,200 people-550 families, 350 of whom depend entirely on agriculture, and 200 of whom depend partially on agriculture. At present, according to IDF records obtained by the Jayyous Land Defense Committee, 69 Jayyous farmers have never been issued permits to access their land, and 20 farmers have been unable to renew their permits, though anecdotal evidence indicates that these numbers are not comprehensive. Those farmers who have been issued permits to access their land may do so by way of one of two gates in Jayyous, three times a day for one hour at each time.''

''The South Gate, or Gate 26, may only be used by an extremely minimal number of farmers. The main gate used in Jayyous is the North Gate, or Gate 25. It is through this gate that the only agricultural road remaining after the construction of the wall (8 similar roads were destroyed during its construction) passes into the farmers' cultivated land near Zufin settlement. In December of 2004 Israeli bulldozers illegally uprooted 728 olive trees from this cultivated area. This land, according to a May 1996 decision made by the Israeli military court Beit Eal, belongs to Jayyous farmers, yet protests against the uprooting of the trees, which were conducted by Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals throughout the month of December, were ignored.''

''Now, Israel has begun the next stage of the destruction of Jayyous. OnSunday, June 4, 2005, the Israeli Defense Forces began the construction of a new road in the town. This road will serve to further isolate Jayyous farmers from their land and to facilitate the illegal 'expansion' of Zufin settlement. Plans for this expansion, which will mean the addition of 1,500 new houses to the existing 185 (the increase in houses is eightfold and will expand the settlement 3km to the north and 3km to the east), show that the projected settlement expansion area, known as Nofei Zufim, sits directly on top of the only current agricultural road by which Jayyous farmers can travel to their lands from Gate 25.''

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