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Fenced in but defiant in Israeli-occupied West Bank

Source: PNN - Palestine News Network

Nov 03, 2009

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BEIT IJZA, West Bank — Sabri Mohammed Ghraieb has seen the olive groves that once fringed his West Bank home turn into a Jewish settlement and prison-like walls but still he refuses to leave. For a quarter of a century, the 73-year-old who goes by the nickname, Abu Samir, has stubbornly refused to abandon his home, despite Israel's efforts to make him leave. They've done everything so that I leave my house, he says. They've threatened me, beaten me, put me in prison and offered to buy it from me. I refused, he said.His efforts have exacted a heavy price.His hilltop house once nestled among olive trees on the outskirts of the Palestinian village of Beit Ijza. Today it is a walled-off enclave inside the Jewish settlement of Givon HaHadasha that has sprung up on the former farmland.A concrete wall and a fence with electronic sensors encircle his house. The only entrance is through a gate that the Israeli army can close at will by remote control.On the other side of the prison-like barriers lies Givon HaHadasha, a tranquil settlement of 300 Jewish families liv ...Read the full article

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