{"id":5287,"date":"2020-06-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2020-09-15T16:38:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:38:48","slug":"palestinian-painter-channels-her-fears-of-israeli-annexation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=5287","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Painter Channels Her Fears of Israeli Annexation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Reuters<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 22, 2020, 8:55 a.m. ET<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

JORDAN VALLEY, West Bank \u2014 Amid the barren hills of the Jordan Valley, Palestinian artist Khadeeja Bisharat paints scenes of bulldozers and demolitions, a reflection of fears of what may happen to her isolated Bedouin community if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 15,000 Palestinians live in tiny pastoral encampments scattered across the Jordan Valley. Israel has pledged to extend its sovereignty over the territory – some 30% of the West Bank – with cabinet-level discussion on the move set to begin July 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This affects our psychological wellbeing, and the children’s wellbeing … Will they allow residents to stay? Will they demolish their houses?” Bisharat, 37, said from her Bedouin encampment in the northern Jordan Valley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She says she has tried to express her fear and uncertainty through paintings, among them a watercolour depicting women gathered around a demolished home and a scene of a yellow bulldozer approaching a tin Bedouin shack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I try to convey a message of how the occupation impacts us, the violations we are subjected to,” the mother-of-three said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel captured the West Bank in a 1967 war. An Israeli military post, near the Jewish settlement of Hamra, looks down on Bisharat’s community from a nearby hilltop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said she felt surrounded, far from areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority and exposed to Israeli demolition of farm shacks erected by her community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel has cited a lack of proper permits, required in parts of the West Bank under complete Israeli military control, in issuing demolition orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peace Now, an Israeli advocacy group that opposes Israel’s settlement policy, says most Palestinian applications for building permission are rejected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bisharat’s husband, Mahmoud, said their community would be defiant in the face of citation generator<\/a> Israeli annexation.”Even if it is imposed on us, we will resist with all the means we have.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Writing by Rami Ayyub; Editing by Mike Collett-White)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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