{"id":10048,"date":"2012-05-21T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10048"},"modified":"2012-05-21T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:50:01","slug":"your-lunch-plans-at-beit-jala-have-been-cancelled-by-the-idf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10048","title":{"rendered":"Your lunch plans at Beit Jala have been cancelled by the IDF"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well-known Beit Jala restaurant destroyed by Israel, again<\/strong>
\nRyan Brownell – The Electronic Intifada – 21 May, 2012<\/p>\n

Beit Jala – In the early morning of Thursday, 3 May, representatives from several human rights organizations were scheduled to have breakfast in the popular al-Makhrour restaurant near Bethlehem.<\/p>\n

The purpose for the scheduled workshop was to discuss house demolitions and property confiscation by Israeli forces in Area C, a zone comprising 60 percent of the West Bank that is under full Israeli control.<\/p>\n

As people arrived for the meeting, though, the first thing they saw was a bulldozer leaving the site, alongside some Israeli officials. The restaurant \u2014 which is located beside the village of Beit Jala \u2014 had been demolished two hours earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was bizarre,\u201d said Mohammad Zeidan, director of the Arab Association for Human Rights. \u201cThe timing \u2026 we couldn\u2019t really believe what we were seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just before dawn on that day, Israeli soldiers surrounded and sealed off the area, and proceeded to destroy the restaurant and an adjacent building owned by the Qesieh family. The demolition was carried out under the pretext of a demolition order issued in 2005.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe restaurant was already gone,\u201d said Odna Copty of the Association for the Rights of the Internally Displaced in Israel. \u201cIt is always sad to hear about these things, and to read about them. But when you expect it to be there, and it\u2019s gone, that\u2019s always something different.\u201d …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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