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Occupation magazine - Settlements Home page  back Print  Send To friend Festivity Amos Gvirtz amosg@shefayim.org.il Don`t Say We Didn`t Know 630 22.1.2019 On Thursday night, January 10, 2019, praying Jews came to the Palestinian village Awarta (west of the Jewish settler-colony Itamar) to hold the `festivity of the seventy elders and the sons of Aharon the Priest, Elazar and Itamar`. The Israeli army closed off the village and escorted the observants. The next day, Awarta villagers discovered that three of their cemetery`s gravestones had been desecrated. *** In the third week of 2019, Bedouins in several Negev villages were forced to demolish their own homes under the threat that if they don`t, the State will and they will have to cover the expenses! At Ghagha (southeast of Hura) one home, at Wadi Ghwayin (in Mulda`a) three homes, and in Al Watan (south of Hura), two homes. [bz] Links to the latest articles in this section Palestinian killed while protesting settlement expansion Netanyahu repeatedly dismisses US objections to building beyond Green Line ‘The settlers brought caravans and put them on a hill next to us’