al-West Bank – Ghirayib family life in foreign manifestations of Isræls 43-year-old occupation of West Bank: a Palestinian house inside a metal cage inside an isræls settlement.
10 family members, four of them children, can only achieve this House through a 40-yard (m) time connecting them to the Arab village of Beit Ijza longer down a hill. Time passes through a road used by the isrælske Army jeeps and is lined on both sides with a 24-foot-high (8-meter) heavy metal fences.
The same fence rings simple one-story house, to distinguish it from the surrounding settlement houses. Some of these homes are so close that the family can hear shouted insults at a nearby Jewish neighbor.
While all Ghirayibs the situation is unusual, to say the Palestinians it reflects the pressure put on their society of Israel's more than 120 West Bank settlements.
The Palestinian Authority has refused to hold peace talks with Israel, while settlement construction continues. The latest round of negotiations collapsed to the settlement issue in September, only three weeks after the start.
Some 500,000 Isrælies live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem occupied territories claimed Palestinians for a future State.
This week directed the Palestinians their anger against the United States after the vetoed a resolution before the UNITED NATIONS Security Council condemns the settlements as "illegal."
United States said it opposes settlements, but that peace negotiations is the only way to solve such problems. The Council's 14 other members voted for the measure.
"The Americans have chosen to be alone in interfering with the internationally supported Palestinian efforts," said Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
Ahead of the vote, Fayyad visited home page with the United Nations High Commissioner for human rights Navi for, who commented: "This is an inhuman life they have".
El Sadat al-Ghirayib, 30, said his father built the House in 1978 of about 27 acres family land, where he planted fruit trees. Isræls army confiscated soon as part of the land, he said.
Settlement of Givon HaHadasha was founded in the early 1980s. Al-Ghirayib said the army confiscated several Earth as settlement spread. Today is the home of some 1,100 Jewish settlers, some of their home not more than two dozen steps from home al-Ghirayib. Only a handful of trees remain.
The army built in 2005, a section of its West Bank separation barrier near the settlement. Israel says the barrier keeps out the invaders. Palestinians say it steals land by cutting deep into the West Bank in some places.
The home was the only one in the village of approximately 700 people in the settlement side of the barrier.
Al-Ghirayib, who works in a local metal shop, said he and his family attempted to stop the construction crews and the army detained them. When they were released, the cage was in place, he said. Security cameras on heavy metal gate at the end on the inner side of time monitor all that come and go.
He said army officers have recently threatened to close the gate, says village children come to cast stones at the settlement.
"They have cameras. If they see kids throw stones, they may shoot them, "said the father, 74-year-old, Sabri. "I had to guard the entrance?"
The isrælske army does not comment on whether the country was confiscated, how the fence was built, or if there are plans to close the gate.
It said in a statement, the Supreme Court shall examine the question of isrælske of the family land, and that the army had "invested" tens of thousands of dollars in order to ensure your family can leave home without coordinating with the army.
Neighbours is very close. A recent afternoon walked Gary Bar Dov, 15, who live in a third-floor apartment with views of the Parliament, while the children inside caught the fence and monitored.
' It is very strange to live in this way, ' he said. "It is strange, but you get used to it".
