Breaking the Silence › Tours - Hebron
In
every tour we guide in Hebron we stop in what we called, as soldiers,
"the mute woman's house". Sahaar is not mute, she's deaf. She lives with
her son Yusef right next to the Abraham Avinu settlement in Hebron. She
is one of the few Palestinians left in that area, where Palestinians
are forbidden to walk. When we served in the city we used to call them
"sterile" streets.
For years the neighboring settlers have been
making Sahaar and her son's lives unbearable. Attacking them, throwing
stones, sabotaging their home and doing their best to drive them out.
The soldiers serving in the area have no authority to arrest settlers.
Usually, they also lack the motivation.
For hours they cleared dozens of kilos of garbage thrown into Sahaar's
yard by the settlers, cleared a path to the yard blocked by stones, and
fixed the sewage pipe broken by the settlers.
Join us on a tour of Hebron to hear the story of the city from soldiers who served in it, and see the reality for yourself: http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/tours/1
photos: Lior Ben Eliahu
