The Boston Globe · 25 August 2023
CP-2023-057
Palestinian villages on West Bank continue to empty
Residents blame Israeli settler attacks, violence
By Julia Frankel, Associated Press, Al-Qabun, West Bank
Transcribed from the clipping
“AL-QABUN, West Bank — The Palestinian hamlet of al-Qabun in the central occupied West Bank was silent this week — the grazing fields for sheep deserted, the empty schoolhouse locked, the makeshift homes left as steel carcasses. The last families living there packed up two weeks ago… ‘I feel like I’m a refugee here, and settlers are the owners of our land,’ said Ali Abu Kbash, a shepherd who fled al-Qabun with his four children and 60 sheep… Settler attacks have displaced nearly 500 Palestinians, including 261 children, in the past year and a half, the office estimates. A spokesperson for settlers in the region denied accusations of violence or aggression against Palestinian communities. ‘No one forced them out,’ said Eliana Passentin. ‘They chose to leave.’ … ‘The rest of my village is too scared to return,’ said Mustafa Arara, a 24-year-old resident who recently went back.”
Context added by this archive
A village emptying in 2023, reported while it happened, with the settlers’ spokeswoman given the sentence that denies it. The headline has the villages emptying by themselves.
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"Palestinian villages on West Bank continue to empty," The Boston Globe, 25 August 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-057. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-057
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