Video of a young Palestinian girl climbing a closed security gate to get home has sparked anger on social media and highlighted the daily inconvenience for Palestinians living under Israeli control in Hebron (Al-Khalil).
On video the moment a Palestinian child was forced to climb an Israeli military fence to be able to go home in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron.#GroupPalestine @Yemeni_Proudly @Betelgeuse100 @leilanazzar @palestine_bs @palestinalibre @Bay0n_M https://t.co/xn7Mv8Goju pic.twitter.com/FyqiPG1E4t
— Cruz landaeta (@landa_jj) August 29, 2018
The video, shared by Israeli activist and Breaking the Silence NGO spokesperson Achiya Schatz, depicts the extreme lengths a Palestinian child goes to get back to her house. The girl is seen struggling to climb a closed gate in Hebron, the top section of which is angled back towards her. The video has been viewed over 13,000 times since being posted.
Schatz wrote:
“A girl tries to go home, just like your child, only she was born in Hebron. Don’t worry, it’s not because we’ve made them less than humans, it’s about security.”
On their way home, Palestinians find no way but to climb an Israeli military fence in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
Call a spade a spade – Apartheid Israel.https://t.co/3c4StPz6QC— ??Jahangir ??Khan ??????? ????? (@mh116366) August 29, 2018
While the extreme route home appears shocking, this is a regular occurrence for Hebron’s Palestinian residents.
In 2017, Israeli forces extended a fence it built at the entrance to the Gheith and A-Salaimeh neighborhoods in Hebron. It has a single gate, which is meant to remain open between the hours of 6 am and 10 pm but is often closed arbitrarily. Those who wish to get to their homes when the gate is closed have to take a long route through a checkpoint or risk scaling the fence.
Even more settlers in Hebron are carring guns now thanks to Israel's passage of a new law further relaxing restrictions of [Israeli only] civilization open gun carry. More guns mean more apartheid and more violence. That is reality today. pic.twitter.com/lIv6Q9vFUV
— Issa Amro عيسى عمرو ?? (@Issaamro) August 25, 2018
In May, similar footage was released by Israeli human rights group B’tselem, which showed school children arriving to find their route home was blocked by a closed gate. Women looked on from inside the fence, urging the Israeli soldiers to open the gate, as the children eventually scaled it. The gate was closed for five days, which an IDF spokesperson said was in response to stones and an explosive device being thrown.
Hebron School-children Run Israeli Gauntlet Of Terror https://t.co/sb7DPPgZF0
— Palestine Solidarity (@palestine_rsa) January 7, 2018
The fence is built along A-Salaimeh street and divides it in two, with the far larger, paved side off limits to Palestinians, who are only permitted to travel on a small section that remains unpaved.
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