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A WINDOW OF HOPE IN WADI FOQUIN
by Christie R. House For a thousand years, Palestinian families living in a small village just west of Bethlehem have made a living from the fruits of their land. Wadi Foquin (“Valley of Thorns” in Arabic)]—whose residents are all Muslim Palestinians—was torn apart when the State of Israel was established in 1948. After Israel took 80 percent of the village’s land, its residents were forced to evacuate to refugee camps. Now that it is part of the Occupied Territories, what remains of this Palestinian village is surrounded by Israel and cut off from the rest of the West Bank. ... For the full article: http://www.cnumc.org/news/69695 
Nov 13, 2013 - Urge Your Rep. to Attend 11/19 Wadi Foquin Hill Briefing
Check out the New World Outlook magazine, featuring Wadi Foquin on page 34. You can find it in digital edition here: http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/NewWorldOutlook/.
General Board of Global Ministries | The United Methodist Church http://www.umcmission.org Beleaguered Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen
Sandwiched between the Apartheid Wall and the illegal Jewish squatter colony of Beitar Illit in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen has been at the receiving end of Israel’s sewage war, which is causing terrible damage to crops and poisoning the land, and has been told that it must close its only recreational park. As if that were not enough, the Israeli occupiers have escalated their harassment of the villagers by issuing demolition orders to farmers – the thieves instructing the rightful owners to destroy their own property. 
Israeli Forces Notify Wadi Fukin Council to Stop Park Construction
Israeli occupation forces notified the Wadi Fukin village council, west of Bethlehem, to stop construction on a park that it has recently begun establishing. PNN reporter said that the notice to stop construction in the park came under the pretext of building without a license and that the park is in an area under Israeli control. Israel Uses Settler Feces as Bio-Warfare Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) uses feces of Israeli residents and settlers as a form of bio-warfare against Palestinian farmers in the villages of Wadi Fuqeen and Nahaleen. Additionally, the Israeli army has developed a large vehicle for spraying sewage waste and feces at Palestinian protestors and homes, reportedly, in the towns of Abu Dis, Aizariah, Bil’in and Nabi Saleh... 
Wadi Foquin: “On this earth ~ Ala hadhihi al-Ard”
http://messagesfrombethlehem.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/wadi-foquin/ 
Huge sewage outflows from illegal Israeli settlement poison Palestinian land
Editor Sewage from the illegal Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit has again been flowing on to farmers’ fields in the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen, near Bethlehem, causing terrible damage to crops and poisoning the land. For two days now, raw sewage has poured on to large areas of farmland in Wadi Fuqeen. Regular and longstanding members of the British-based Friends of Wadi Fuqeen group will have heard about this issue many times before. However, on 28 September they received some photographs that give an idea of just how serious the problem is. http://tinyurl.com/mkduk4b |
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