By Abeer Salman, CNN
The population of this remote and impoverished island of refugees from the wars of 1948 and 1967 has never had a simple life. But over the past two weeks, the situation in the Shuafat camp in East Jerusalem has become even more unbearable.
Israel has made life more complicated for citizens of Shuafat refugee camp since an Oct. 8 attack on the camp’s army checkpoint left one Israeli soldier dead and seriously wounded.
Since then, IDF troops have invaded homes in the middle of the night, stun grenades and tear gas in and around homes while searching for the alleged shooter, a resident, Udai Tamimi. Tighter restrictions have created long lines of cars coming and going. the camp, leaving citizens with the feeling that Israel is denying them their freedom and freedom of movement.
“We are being punished collectively,” said resident Asa’ad Ali. “We are in a crisis situation. The checkpoint policy humiliates us by revealing that they are still in place after the security breach that occurred on the day of the attack. If you stop by the Jerusalem Zoo, locate animals by getting rights we haven’t had here in decades.
Ten days after the shooting at the checkpoint, not far from where Tamimi intended to hide, he carried out another firefight, lightly wounding an Israeli soldier, before being shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Israel responded by imposing even more restrictions on refugees. camp where he grew up.
More than 130,000 Palestinians live in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem and in the vicinity of the city of Anata, according to the camp’s data center. It is the only Palestinian refugee camp within the Israeli-built municipal barriers for Jerusalem after the seizure of the eastern component of the village in 1967. But despite being in the municipality, the camp lacks the proper infrastructure or facilities that other Jerusalem neighborhoods are receiving, such as garbage collection, water pipes, sewage system and sanitation.
The Jerusalem municipal government did not respond to a request for comment from CNN about the lack of public in the refugee camp.
A wall isolates the camp from the rest of the city. Residents of the camp, all of whom have Israeli Jerusalem IDs, will need to pass through a checkpoint to enter Jerusalem to go to school, paint and shop.
Atallah Ismail mourned his mother last week as the search for Tamimi continued. He died two days after an attack on a checkpoint at a Jerusalem hospital. Ismail was not allowed to be with her.
“They are pressuring us to lose the last drops of hope. Life is becoming increasingly unbearable here,” he said. “I may not say goodbye to my mother. Wooden house before the funeral so that the other people who enjoyed it and were raised through it can see it for the last time. Because there is a closure that will also save us from taking her to the cemetery, she buried without a funeral in the Cemetery of the Gate of the Lions.
Israel denies closure of Shuafat camp
“The Shuafat checkpoint has been open since Monday [October 10] to vehicular and pedestrian traffic as part of a strict control carried out in accordance with operational needs, as part of the continuation of the hunt for the terrorist who carried out a shooting at the site a few days ago,” Israel Police said on October 12.
A general strike at the camp was announced on police day as a rejection of what citizens see as a blockade, nightly raids on citizens’ homes and arrests by Israeli police still searching for the gunman.
Hundreds of youths blocked the front of the camp that day. Shops closed and Israeli police and border police stood in front, in a confrontational position.
Maha Abrash, 35, had a hospital appointment when she was 32 weeks pregnant.
“I’m really afraid of wasting my baby or giving birth prematurely. I was in pain for 3 days and the tear gas hit me hard,” she said. “I’ve tried to cross 3 times, but we can’t use cars to cross and they’re only allowed to cross, but staying in line can take hours. “
Violence and tensions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have intensified this year, with more common incursions through Israeli forces in the West Bank and more gun attacks through Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel.
Residents of Shuafat refugee camp see it as a ticking time bomb and accuse Israeli politicians of gambling with their lives ahead of the Nov. 1 elections.
“If I wake up and can’t find bread or milk or fundamental desires for my young people because of Israel, then yes, I will attack,” said Asa’ad Ali, a resident of the camp. “This is a teenage style. ” Israeli policy. . . They let other people love life because either we live with dignity or we die. They give other people their rights instead of figuring out how to put them on the ground.
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Visitors arriving in Qatar for the World Cup will soon stop at two of the country’s last citizens: a pair of giant pandas.
The pandas arrived this week at their new home in Qatar and are a gift from China ahead of the next World Cup, when they can see them.
Pandas live in southwest China’s Sichuan province and are accustomed to temperate forests high in the mountains.
Originally named Jing Jing and Si Hai when they lived in China, pandas gained new Arabic names for their life in the Middle East. Jing Jing now passes to Suhail, and Si Hai is now called Thuraya.
The 4-year-old male and 3-year-old female will live in an enclosed indoor area that mimics the dense forest of their grassy habitat at home, Qatari state media said.
Qatar is in a hot, desert climate, but boasts of being the first country in the Middle East to welcome the black-and-white creatures and provide them with a suitable environment.
The pandas will be quarantined for 21 days before visitors can see them and will live in Al Khor Park, 35km from the capital, Doha.
“The panda park is expected to be one of the most important tourist and recreational destinations attracting visitors from inside and outside Qatar,” Qatari state media said. The small Gulf state is expected to welcome more than a million enthusiasts for the duration of the Cup, which kicks off Nov. 20.
The pandas are a national treasure in China. They were presented in Qatar as a sign of the strong friendship of the two countries, Qatari and Chinese state media said.
According to the agreement signed between Qatar and China, pandas will be in Qatar for the next 15 years, Chinese state media said.
By Nadeen Ebrahim
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