This is Wafaa and Abed, with their four sons, at the reopening of their house. On 11th February, I wrote about the happy ceremony when they were handed the keys of their new house, which had been rebuilt by the Holy Land Trust and the Amos Trust.
The house had been destroyed by Israeli bulldozers in 2002, just one month after it had been completed. The whole community turned out to share the joy.
Yesterday they received another demolition order. They have one month to appeal to the court before the bulldozer arrives again.
They have nothing to deserve this treatment. It is inhuman and heartless, an act designed purely to maintain fear of the occupying force. This attack on rural villagers who have no part in the conflict needs to be stopped.
I feel the sense of frustration here that no-one in the world listens to the cry of the Palestinians. The right of the Jews to live in Israel, does not give them the right to terrorise a nation just because they happened to be living here when they arrived.
Have today written to Dr Phillip Lee, my Member of Parliament, and Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Middle East Council.
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