This is nothing new. When I was in Hebron in 2019 I talked to a farmer family too, but it was even worse for him because his family house has been demolished 3 times already and when I was there I saw that the IDF bulldozered his whole farm, ripped out all the trees, destroyed all vegetables and fruit plants. He even traveled to Geniva to talk in front of the UN about their situation but nothing changed. His name is Atta Jaber, you can google him for more context.

I also recorded a episode of my podcast when I was there https://jeena.net/pods/21

[–] Devi@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a friend who used to volunteer in Palestine. One of his jobs dealt with evictions. Basically if you're a person anywhere in the world and you can go through historical documents and find a suggestion that your ancestors may have owned property in a certain place you can present that to Israel and they give the current residents, many who have owned their houses for multiple generations, some of whom have records of their relatives buying the land from the first family, 24 hours to leave.

There are troops of volunteers who will come down with a moving van and help you load your entire life in because there's nothing else you can do.

It's criminal.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what happens when two distant cousins try to steal the same land?

I'm betting there are court cases about it... Now I'm imagining a sadistic version of Judge Judy where two entitled pricks argue about who gets to steal a person's entire life out from under them.

I'd watch it, but only if it was actually some sort of prank show where the two jackasses didn't know they were testifying against themselves in a criminal proceeding.

[–] Devi@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Probably a scrap, or maybe they just get to pick another random palestinian house to steal?