The day before Ramadan starts, the quiet West Bank village of Jayyus (3,000 people) experienced another Israeli Defense Force incursion of four Army vehicles, including one police vehicle. Some 20 soldiers guarded sites where houses were entered and people interrogated.
See video footage of this incursion on 31 July 2011 on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blnbnhOOMfI
"For security", said the one in charge, when we EAs (Ecumenical Accompaniment Program for Palestine and Israel) asked why the soldier visit. I silently gasped as this Commander gently touched my shoulder and pointed, as though seeking our understanding. "You see those boys on top [or the houses]? They throw stones at us." He left us....before I could gasp back, "Well of course they would. Your presence is causing any violent backlash, ding bat!" We followed the vehicles on foot, taking photos, and in constant vision of the soldiers. They stopped at four family homes. Seemingly, no arrests were made, just alot of unnecessary initimidation which merely incited the young boys to throw their stones. Even, one policeman tried to protect us from these flying objects - another uncanny twist to the bizarre, yet real, playground the IDF has chosen to use in this illegally occupied land. A vender selling chick peas weaves defiantly along the main road of Jayyus, barely avoiding the parked army jeeps. We call him 'birthday man' as his vending music ironically chimes out 'Happy Birthday to You"!! Just another crazy, bizarre twist.
(Video footage courtesy of EA Marvin Domoguen)
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