{"id":3058,"date":"2015-12-12T12:54:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T10:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jahalin.org\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2015-12-12T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T10:54:33","slug":"bedouin-community-left-without-shelter-gideon-levy-alex-levac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=3058","title":{"rendered":"Demolished, Rebuilt and Razed Again: A Bedouin Community Left Without Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Gideon Levy and Alex Levac<br \/>\n<em><strong>Originally published in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/science\/.premium-1.678558\" target=\"_blank\">Haaretz<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 December 11, 2015 [Photo by\u00a0<em>Alex Levac]<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/em>Dozens of pigeons, white and gray, now flock together on a small tin roof, pressed up against one another, as though protecting each other. They survived by flying off before the demolition, but their chicks were crushed alive by the bulldozers that razed this hamlet. The pigeons\u2019 lofts, made from plastic olive oil containers, are now scattered on the ground, like the living survivors in Al Hadidya.<\/p>\n<p>The local mukhtar, or headman, 65-year-old Abu Saker \u2013 whose full name is Abdel Rahim Basharat \u2013 says he hears the pigeons crying. With his toothless mouth, he too cries for his pigeons, his home, his three wives, 24 children and multitude of grandchildren, some of whom remain here after the demolition, without a roof over their heads, unsheltered in the biting cold of the Jordan Rift Valley\u2019s nights. When the villagers had the temerity to cover their infants with strips of plastic sheeting, personnel from the Israeli Civil Administration arrived and burned the sheeting.<\/p>\n<p>The sheer inhumanity of it is breathtaking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more at:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-1.691212\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-1.691212<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Gideon Levy and Alex Levac Originally published in\u00a0Haaretz\u00a0\u2013 December 11, 2015 [Photo by\u00a0Alex Levac] Dozens of pigeons, white and gray, now flock together on a small tin roof, pressed up against one another, as though protecting each other. They survived by flying off before the demolition, but their chicks were crushed alive by the bulldozers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[19,26,31,81,126,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}