Okuthiwa bahleli endaweni yamasotsha basengcupheni yokususwa
Abantu basePalestine ababalelwa e-1,200 endaweni ehlaselwe iWest Bank eMasafer Yatta babhekene nengozi yokususwa ngenkani ukuze kuvuleke indawo yokudubula amasosha ngemuva kwempi yezomthetho eyadonsa amashumi eminyaka ephele ngenyanga edlule eNkantolo Ephakeme yakwa-Israel.
Lesi sinqumo savula indlela yokuxoshwa kwabantu abaningi kakhulu kusukela u-Israel athatha le ndawo ngempi yaseMiddle East yangowe-1967; kodwa izakhamuzi ziyenqaba ukuhamba, zithemba ukuthi ukuqina kwazo kanye nengcindezi yamazwe ngamazwe kuzogcina u-Israel eqhuba ukuxoshwa.
Ingxabano enkulu phakathi necala elide laligxile ekutheni amaPalestini ahlala endaweni yonke angabahlali unomphela noma abahlali bezinkathi ezithile zonyaka. Ngowe-1980, u-Israel wamemezela le ndawo njengendawo yamasosha evaliwe eyaziwa ngokuthi “Indawo Yokudubula 918”. Iphikise enkantolo ukuthi lawa mahektha ayizi-3,000 agudla umngcele we-Israel-West Bank “abaluleke kakhulu” ngezinjongo zokuqeqesha nokuthi amaPalestini ahlala lapho abahlali bezinkathi ezithile zonyaka kuphela.
INkantolo Ephakeme yaphetha ngokuthi izakhamuzi “zehlulekile ukufakazela isimangalo sazo sokuhlala unomphela” ngaphambi kokuba le ndawo kuthiwe iyindawo yokudubula. Yayithembele ezithombeni zasemoyeni nasezingcaphunweni zencwadi yangowe-1985 izinhlangothi zombili eziyicaphune njengobufakazi.
Le ncwadi, enesihloko esithi “Life in the Caves of Mount Hebron”, yabhalwa isazi sesayensi yezinto eziphilayo sakwa-Israel uYaacov Havakook, ochithe iminyaka emithathu efunda ngempilo yabalimi nabelusi basePalestine eMasafer Yatta. UHavakook wenqabile ukuphawula wadlulisela izintatheli encwadini yakhe. Kodwa-ke, isazi semvelaphi nenhlalo yabantu sithe sizamile ukuhambisa umbono wesazi egameni lezakhamizi kulandela isicelo somunye wabameli bazo, futhi wavinjwa uMnyango Wezokuvikela wakwa-Israel lapho ayeqashwe khona ngaleso sikhathi.
Isinqumo sihlukumeza abahlali
Imiphakathi kule ngxenye yaseNingizimu Hebron Hills ngokwesiko yayihlala emigedeni engaphansi komhlaba. Kule minyaka engamashumi amabili edlule, sebeqalile nokwakha imijondolo yamathayela namakamelo amancane ngaphezu komhlaba.
Ngokusho kwezakhamizi, amasosha akwa-Israel sekuyiminyaka ebhidliza lezi zakhiwo ezintsha, futhi njengoba esesekwa yinkantolo ephakeme kwa-Israel, kungenzeka ukuthi kuqhubeke ukukhishwa kwabantu ezindlini. “Bafuna ukusiphuca lo mhlaba ukuze bakhe izindawo zokuhlala,” kusho uWadha Ayoub Abu Sabha, isakhamuzi sase-al-Fakheit, okungenye yeqembu lamadolobhana lapho abelusi nabalimi basePalestine bethi banomlando wokuxhumana nomhlaba. “Asihambi,” kusho yena.
Ukugxekwa Ngamazwe
I-United Nations kanye ne-European Union basigxekile isinqumo senkantolo futhi banxusa u-Israel ukuthi ayeke ukubhidliza nokuxoshwa kwabantu ezindlini. “Ukusungulwa kwendawo yokudubula angeke kubhekwe ‘njengesizathu sezempi esibalulekile’ sokudlulisa inani labantu abangaphansi kwalo,” kusho okhulumela i-EU esitatimendeni.
