A microcosm of Palestinian struggle: One family’s life in Hebron
Al JazeeraThe al-Jaabaris are one of several families in Hebron whose home is sandwiched between Israeli settlements. Israel argues that the presence of army forces and restrictions on Palestinians are necessary for security reasons, and to protect Jewish settlers living in Hebron from Palestinian attacks. In late February, an Israeli court ruled that the Israeli army could continue to use a building in Hebron built mostly on private Palestinian land by arguing that a Jewish presence in the West Bank is part of the Israeli army’s security doctrine. “On these holidays, the Israeli right mobilises its supporters from the city and outside,” Hisham al-Sharabati, a Hebron resident and human rights worker, told Al Jazeera, adding that settler harassment usually increases during this time. ‘Continuous attacks’ The al-Jaabari family’s decades-long struggle is a microcosm of life for Palestinians under Israeli army rule in Hebron.
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