Know More News - Adam Green - A Palestinian Shopkeeper's Message to the World
Aired: 2018-10-29
Duration: 03:40

[00:00:01]  If you switch to the other side, you could see another military army watching tower.
[00:00:05]  They are trying hard again on this area is to take over and to kick us outside here.
[00:00:10]  But we are strong, and we got used to all this, and we are determined to stay.
[00:00:15]  We are not gonna give up as long as we live.
[00:00:17]  Because this is our homeland, and we grown up in these stores.
[00:00:21]  I came down here when I was seven years old, I'm 58.
[00:00:24]  I'm already grandfather.
[00:00:26]  And we want you to do us a big favor, please.
[00:00:29]  Try to spread what you've seen in your house because you are a witness, and add on top of that, stick all what you c uh what you gonna take as photographs or pictures, put it on your page on your Facebook and show it and cherry because we don't deserve all this.
[00:00:44]  At the end, we're all a human being and we must respect each other.
[00:00:48]  And they try to advise for us to encourage people to come down here because it's safe, it's secure, it's one of the nicest city in the West Bank.
[00:00:57]  The biggest city is Hebron, capital of economy, industry, factories, everything is nice about it.
[00:01:04]  And thank you.
[00:01:05]  Thank you.
[00:01:08]  You just told us that the settlers throw piss, bleach, poop, rocks, all types, that's a bottle full of pee, and they do it all in front of the IDF, the Israeli military, and they do nothing.
[00:01:21]  24 hours.
[00:01:25]  Excuse me.
[00:01:28]  Excuse me, two minutes.
[00:01:29]  My name is Radha Mormela, I am Beth Salem.
[00:01:32]  Human rights in Garzai.
[00:01:33]  I am Valentine, Bethell.
[00:01:35]  And this is the beginning.
[00:01:36]  Right.
[00:01:37]  We took the Israelite.
[00:01:41]  We took Abraham more.
[00:01:42]  Here is the water.
[00:01:44]  Bye bye.
[00:01:47]  Oh.
[00:01:47]  Yeah, what's that?
[00:01:49]  I'm a bug open behind you to let me go fast.
[00:01:53]  You are facing one of the biggest settlements in the heart of the city, and they gave it a name to Israeli, they call it Abraham Abino settlement.
[00:02:00]  The big part of the settlement is behind this building.
[00:02:03]  They built it on the main vegetable and the food market.
[00:02:06]  We used to have a big market, selling in big quantities to stores in Hebron and Hebron district.
[00:02:12]  They shut it down, kick all shopkeepers, they built new buildings, a huge buildings, so many floors, and they live in them right now.
[00:02:18]  It's not enough what they've done over there.
[00:02:20]  If you stand here on this side, you could see as well.
[00:02:24]  They occupied all these all the floors and they added another floor on top which is not their property.
[00:02:29]  It's the last thing and they did sell it to them.
[00:02:30]  And this metal metal metal shopkeepers are kind of protection because they keep it around all kinds of garbage and the trash on top of the boxes.
[00:02:38]  Sometimes it goes further more than that by pouring at people liquid.
[00:02:42]  Dirty water, bleach, urine, sewage, rotten eggs, they fist.
[00:02:51]  So this is the market where the settlers live above and they stick and piss, throw their poop down, their trash, rocks.
[00:03:03]  So the market needed to the market needed to put fence up here to protect the people in the market.
[00:03:10]  You can see all the Palestinian shops.
[00:03:26]  So this is the Hebron markets, the settler buildings above me.
[00:03:32]  The Palestinian market below.
[00:03:37]  They got the fence to protect us from rocks.