27 Sep, 2013
The Palestinian village Israel has wiped off the map – The Independent
On 16 September the army destroyed Makhul at 5am, ordering residents to vacate so that the bulldozers could demolish the corrugated-metal dwellings and animal sheds. Some residents trace their presence at the site to before Israel’s victory in the 1967 war, though Israeli officials said most had dwellings in other locales and lived there just part of the year.
The remnants of the demolition were visible on the hillside on Tuesday, piles of scrap that had been the ramshackle homes for just over a hundred people, from nine families, according to their lawyer, Tawfik Jabarin.
Read the rest: The Palestinian village erased from the map: Demolition of Makhul shows how Israelis are transforming the Jordan Valley – The Independent.
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