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Occupation magazine - Life under occupation Home page  back Print  Send To friend From the expansion of Leshem settlement to a Bedouin resident forced to demolish his own home Don`t say we didn`t know 538 I often have to choose what to distribute among all the items that come my way. This time I decided to share this deliberation with my readers. As the week began I thought of writing about the expansion of Leshem settlement and the damages it has been causing the neighboring Palestinian village of Deir Balut. But then I was informed of the confiscation of 326 dunams belonging to the villages of Jalud and Turmus Aya. Then came the news of home demolitions in Ras Al Ahmar and Kardala in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley. And more demolitions in the Palestinian villages around Jerusalem that have been annexed by Israel, and about which I rarely write. After all they are more centrally located, and thus more visible. As Wednesday, February 8 grew near, we feared a repeated demolition at Umm Al Hiran in the Negev. Which did not happen. Instead, Al Arakib was destroyed yet again. And a container was destroyed in Al Zarnouk,and a Bedouin resident was forced to demolish his own home in Wadi Al Na`am , also in the Negev. So you tell me, what should I write about? For further information: amosg@shefayim.org.il [bz] Links to the latest articles in this section Occupation forces injure mourners following funeral of slain infant Mohammad Tamimi Nabi Saleh village assaulted - toddler shot in the head died in hospital Palestinians in the snow: thrown from home into the snow, throw snowballs and get arrested