Going back to Tuwani a week after the breakout from Gaza was a saddening experience. The first sign of what was waiting for us was the ditch across the access road. (
Subsequently, huge concrete cubes were placed at the intersection with the settler highway. It is now a forty-minute detour by car to get to Yatta)
We'd been lucky with the transport again - a guy drove us down from Carmel, saying he'd get us as close as he could to Tuwani. Palestinians can't go all the way to the main
road, they might get shot.
At the guesthouse
In just over a week a lot has changed. Hafez's garden has been destroyed. The ground that we had been carefully manuring; the little piles of
stones we had gradually been removing from the vegetable plots; the fragile fruit trees have all been churned into rubble. The militiamen have set up an awning and a flagpole
where the garden used to be.
There is a Zionist flag in the tree we used to read under in May.
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