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Taybeh village under attack: live shootings and assaults while trying to extinguish a bonfire
Yesterday evening, Tuesday, at about eight thirty, we were confronted with a new attack. It was complex, alarming, and difficult to understand or justify.
The events started with a fire, mainly in a large area of Jabal Al-Masis area opposite the gas station. Palestinian civil defense crews were initially prevented from reaching the site due to incomplete the required security coordination, which allowed the fires to spread and threaten neighboring lands and properties.
In the face of this danger, a number of the town’s youth stepped up to help put out the fire by bringing a water tanker to the area. But they, instead of allowing them to perform their humanitarian duty, have been subjected to siege and ban by settlers. Then things escalated when another group of young men were assaulted. A number of them were hit, two vehicles damaged, and a mobile phone was stolen.
What's worst of all is that live shooting took place in our direction on three separate occasions during these events. Such actions represent a very dangerous acceleration, endangering the lives of civilians and spreading fear among our communities.
The fire was not controlled until after the necessary coordination procedures were completed, so that the Palestinian fire crews had access to the site, and simultaneously with the arrival of the Israeli police, without the expansion of the fire patch.
What we are living is not a series of isolated incidents, but a continuous pattern of intimidation and unjustified violence that undermines our fundamental right to safety, safety and dignity. Children of goodness, the concern of all people everywhere, want only to live in peace on their land, away from fear and repeated assaults.
Therefore, we call on the international community, friendly countries, human rights organizations, churches, and humanitarian institutions to take their moral and legal responsibility and to take serious steps to stop the escalating assaults on the Good Town and its inhabitants.
Kindness, with deep historical and spiritual importance, described as the only remaining entirely Christian Palestinian town in the West Bank, home to the descendants of the first believers in the Message of Christ, deserves protection, dignity, peace, not fear, intimidation and repeated violence.
Our message is simple and clear: we want to live in peace. We want our children to grow up safely, and our families to have a normal life, which is the right of all human beings everywhere. This is a fundamental human right that must be respected & protected.
Father Bashar Fawadla
Priest of the Latin Parish in Tayiba