by Francesca Mannocchi e Gianluca Costantini for Democracy for the Arab World Now – DAWN
There is no one along the road that leads to Issa Amro’s house, just Israeli soldiers. Palestinian homes in Hebron are surrounded by fences as high as the buildings. For Palestinians here, they are the only way to protect themselves from stone-throwing Israeli settlers and other increasingly frequent attacks in the only city where the settlers and Palestinians live together.
Issa’s house has become a cage. He has walled up every space that opens onto the outside: the windows, the entrance gate, the outdoor space where he used to organize workshops with the children of the neighborhood. He has surrounded his garden with wire mesh and covered the wire mesh with plastic sheets, so as not to be seen. During the a recent raid, Israeli soldiers destroyed the security cameras he had placed at every corner of his property. They damaged the “Free Palestine” sign at the entrance to his house. They forbade him from continuing to host Palestinian children and teenagers for courses and conferences on nonviolence. They even ordered him not to receive any visitors to his own home. Continue
