A short cry.. when the wall of silence swallows the olive fields

A report from Palestine Online describes armed attacks by settlers from the settlements of Majdolim and Eish Kodesh on the village of Qusra south of Nablus, including the uprooting of hundreds of olive trees, burning of homes, and live fire. It notes that the separation wall has consumed over 2,900 dunams of the village's 27,000 dunams. The report criticizes the Palestinian Authority, factions, Arab capitals, and the international community for failing to take decisive action, and calls for urgent international protection.

Under the shade of olive trees, the village of Qusra south of Nablus stands witness to renewed chapters of human tragedy. Recently, the quiet village, whose urban plan covers about nine thousand dunams, has become an open arena for death, as extremist settlers from the settlements of Majdolim and Eish Kodesh launch successive armed attacks that have not stopped at uprooting hundreds of ancient olive trees but have reached setting fire to citizens' homes, destroying electricity networks, and firing live bullets at young men and civil defense. The tragedy emerges in numbers when we realize that the separation wall has historically consumed more than two thousand nine hundred dunams of the village's total area of about twenty-seven thousand dunams for the benefit of the settlement of Majdolim alone. The article describes what is happening in Qusra as systematic engineering of uprooting and forced displacement, and an open crime of ethnic cleansing carried out under heavy protection from the occupation army, which imposes a suffocating siege on the village's entrances. Internally, the article criticizes the Palestinian Authority, which confines itself to statements of condemnation, and the Palestinian factions mired in their divisions. The Arab stance reflects regression and betrayal, and internationally, global hypocrisy continues. The article calls for immediate and decisive intervention to impose urgent international protection for the village's residents.