Tel Aviv Tribune Net correspondents
Tulkarm- Inside a deep hole, with a large iron pipe in the middle, Medhat Badir, a welding employee in the Tulkarm municipality, has been sitting for nearly 8 hours trying to weld and repair the main water pipes in one of the streets of the Tulkarm camp in the northwest of the West Bank, which were destroyed by Israeli occupation bulldozers last night after they stormed the camp.
Bdeir re-welded and repaired water pipes, on the main camp street, 5 times after repeated incursions carried out by Israeli occupation military vehicles supported by bulldozers.
He says, “We cannot leave our people without water. Today I return to repairing the water line that I was repairing last night. In every incursion into the camp, Israeli bulldozers bulldoze the water lines in all the lanes and streets.”
Politics of thirst
Badir added, “This is clear and deliberate harm to the people of the camp. The Israeli army destroys the main and secondary water lines every time, they destroy the water networks that supply citizens’ homes, and they destroy the large networks that transport water from the large wells to the camp’s neighborhoods. We see this in the Tulkarm camp and also the camp.” “Sunlight.”
Specialized crews are working to repair what was destroyed by the Israeli occupation bulldozers during their incursions into Tulkarm camp using available tools, and the camp residents are forced to remain without water for days before the main and subsidiary lines are restored.
About this, Badir says, “It is very exhausting for us as a crew working on the ground, and it is very tiring to repeatedly dig to a great depth, until we reach the water pipes, and reinstall them or dismantle them and install a new one, but we cannot leave the people without water, so we will restore what they destroy.” Time after time.”
The camp residents believe that the occupation forces’ goal of striking and destroying the water networks during each incursion is a clear policy to stifle the camp’s residents and prevent water from reaching them, with the aim of pressuring them to abandon resistance and trying to force them to leave the camps.
Camp emptying plan
Ramez Abu Sariya stands in front of his destroyed shop in Tulkarm camp, and talks to Tel Aviv Tribune Net about the great devastation that befell the only place that is considered a source of livelihood for him and his family.
He says, “I built this shop, which was a barbershop, after I was hit by occupation bullets in 2000. This injury caused me many health problems and made me lose the ability to walk normally, but to date my shop has been vandalized 3 times.”
He added, “I repaired the damage that occurred in the shop, and opened it once and twice, and this is the third time it has been destroyed. We in the camp know that Israel’s goal is to strike the resistance. They are trying to make people hate the resistance and abandon it as a popular incubator, and to reject the presence of resistance fighters inside the camp. We know Israel’s goal.” From every incursion into the camp, and from all the destruction and devastation they are doing.”
Abu Sariya believes that Israel’s plan is moving in a clear way to empty the camps of their residents, after their deportation from their lands in 1948, and the occupation seeks to displace the residents from their camps, in order to end the issue of return and the issues of refugees and their rights.
The citizen affirms that everything the occupation forces do in the camp will not affect its incubator, the popular resistance. What is important to the people of the camp is the lives of the resistance fighters, and that all this devastation can be compensated for, as long as the resistance exists and responds to the occupation’s attacks with all its strength.
Resilience and redemption
In the streets of the camp, which were flooded with water, the people went out to see the great destruction caused by the occupation bulldozer last night, in homes, shops, and infrastructure. A citizen expressed what happened during the storming yesterday, and said, “We live in terror. Fear is always with us. Sometimes I imagine that we are We await death at every moment, but what can we do? In the end, death comes only once, so it is better for us to die with dignity, pride and stability in our camp.”
She added, “We will not leave the camp, and we cannot leave from here. Part of my house was destroyed, and its windows were broken, but all of that is redemption for Palestine, redemption for the youth of the camp, and for the resistance. The enemy is one in Gaza, Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarm, and his goal is one, which is to deport us from our land, but we are steadfast.” “.