We recently visited three villages with Marwan from Holy Land Trust.
 
We started in Wadi Rahhal where we met the family Abu Ahu. Their house was
demolished in 2005 and that Holy Land Trust rebuilt the home with international help
in 2008. The wife, Abir Abu Ahu, told us that they were harassed by settlers
from Efrata almost every Saturday. The settlers came with dogs, on horses or
on fourwheels tractors just to frighten those living on the property.We also learned how the wall is going to affect them after another confiscating order of their land.

After that we went to Ath Thabra to visit the Hijasy family who lives under
poor conditions with a brain damaged boy whose special food costs the family a fortune.
For his sake we are contacting a german doctor, a neurologist, at Caritas
hospital to ask for eventual support. They no longer get financial support
from any NGO or international organization. For four years they received
60NIS/month from SOS but that has since stopped.

Finally we went to Wadi an Nis and talked a lot about football.  A local team of
six brothers played and have won the Cup Final for Palestine.
But they also asked for preventive protection as the shepherds are
constantly harassed by settlers almost every day, especially during the
olive harvest. Marwan promised to keep EAs updated.

Bibi Haggstrom
Eappi Group
Bethlehem