Israel strangles a Palestinian village
‘The Palestinian village of Nabi Samwil is being strangled by Israel. Within a few years, it could disappear altogether.
Nabi Samwil overlooks occupied East Jerusalem on one side and Ramallah on the other. With approximately 300 people in no more than a dozen houses, the village is located in the “seam zone” — an area separated from the rest of the occupied West Bank by Israel’s apartheid wall.
About 7,500 Palestinians were living in the “seam zone” in 2012, according to the UN monitoring group OCHA. The current figure is likely to be higher.
The residents of Nabi Samwil are enclosed by settlements, the wall and by an Israeli park that is encroaching onto their land.’
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