Nilin Viilagee
Ni'lin, a village located to the west of Ramallah City in the West Bank, and just a few kilometers east of the Green line has been particularly affected by the construction of the Separation Barrier, the expansion of illegal settlements, the construction of a settler-only road and a tunnel that will inherently run through the village. In the near future, the village will be closed of from all sides, controlling the movement of Ni'lin's citizens through one tunnel.
We are suffering in the village since 1948. Once we had 57,000 dunam of fertile land. Israel has left us 7,000 dunam, they have stolen 50,000 dunam in order to build settlements and road number 446, which is an apartheid road since it can be used only by settlers, we are prohibited to enter it. Five illegal settlements have been built on our land; they surround our village from all sides. Additionally, Israel started building the separation wall on our remaining olive orchards in May 2008, annexing additional dunams of our land.
With the support of surrounding villages, as well as international and Israeli peace activists, we have been protesting against the confiscation of the land and the construction of the apartheid wall.
The Israeli army has responded to our non-violent demonstrations with the frequent use of tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition, which has resulted in the deaths of five persons from the village (Ahmed Mousa 10 years old on 29.07.2008, Yousef Amireh, 17 years old on 04.08.2008, Arafat Nafi, 23 years old on 27.12.2008, Muhammed Khawaja, 18 years old on 31.12.2008 and Aqil Srour, 36 years old on 05.06.2009). More than 55 person have been seriously injured with live bullets, hundreds have been arrested, jailed and fined, and our infrastructure has been damaged. The army regularly invades our village and beats and arrests men and children, often in the middle of the night. We have been on curfew for four consecutive days. The authorities continue to deny us access to our land as well as working permits. There is no doubt that Israel wants us to disappear and annex all that remains. How are we to survive these measures?
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