Walk in Turmusayya

At six in the morning I woke up to go to Ramallah, at half past nine, I online at Manara Square and then went to a Palestinian village called "Turmosayya" It is the first time I went by this village, the Village is Turmosayya regions (B, C). The reason for naming is that in an era of covenants commander collect Zakat from everyone, but he was a man called "Termes" he does not agree to pay for that named the village Turmosayya one of the two sections are "Termes" and "aware" of any that lupine might aware of any he refused to pay Zakat.

Located to the north-east of the city of Ramallah, and away from 23 km is affiliated with the municipality of Bir Zeit of Ramallah, which would rise 660 m above sea level and away from the main road Nablus - Jerusalem 500 m located in the vast plain called (Heath Holiday) or (Marj virgins).

Total area of approximately 17600 acres, cultivation of olive and fig trees, grapes and almonds, surrounded by the territory of villages changer and Jalud and Sinjil and the farm East and Abu Falah, known to the territory of Turmosayya is to stop the shrine of the Prophet Moses.

The number of population in 1922 about 707 people and in 1945 60 people and after the aggression of June 1967 amounted to a population census by the Zionist 1562 people rose this number to reach in 1987 about 2636 people and in 2006 4600 people, there are more than 4000 people living outside Palestine distributors in North America and Brazil , Spain, Panama and the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
Turmusaya is famous for green plains and mountains as it has the spring water is called “Turmosayya Spring.”

As for the building There are 3 urban public schools, one of them is one of the largest public schools in the West Bank, of space, and is characterized by urban people of the progress that's what we've seen walk through the village but that most of these buildings are deserted of its population living abroad, especially in the United States of America. There are also 3 mosques, a hospital and health center and a government clinic. As for the infrastructure there in the village's electricity grid, an old and there are some neighborhoods to this day do not get any power properly. Service and DSL Internet. The distress is the village is the lack of a sewerage system and thus depends on the people of the village cesspits.

There in the village are institutions such as the Rural Development Association was established in 1984 and oversees many activities, including literacy and kindergarten, vocational rehabilitation and health activities, sports and no saw Stone, Marble and there is an equestrian club and Arabian horses.

As for the Israeli violations of the occupation authorities have confiscated 4000 dunums east of the country, mostly wooded with olive trees have been established by the settlement (Shiloh). , A village founded in 1978 and the table area of 1600 acres and occupied a 15,656 Turmosayya on the archaeological sites where the village has been ravaged by debris following Melloul and Kafr Abu Stsenh and age and ravaged by good governance.

We met a famous scientist of Palestine Mr. Nabil Alkam who has published several books, including the Association revival of the family and the migration phenomenon in Palestinian society has been published this book in the United States in 1990 was explained to us why the publication of the authors that the Palestinian people face various forms of injustice and persecution in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, they are subjected daily to kill and arrest ravine of houses and confiscation of agricultural land and dimensions, collective punishment and closure policy in the areas of security, economy, health, education and other services, and adopted by successive Israeli governments of these policies because of the basic contradiction between the facts of the Palestinian presence in the occupied territories, and the Israeli dreamin the mass displacement (transfer) to resolve this contradiction. and take such calls, oft repeated in recent years in the Israeli media. This is not politics in the displacement of Palestinians new to them, has suffered since 1948 and posing the Palestinian people are still facing many ways within the Ola abilities and capacities to respond or respond to this policy. As for the rehabilitation of the Assembly of the family they represent and the Heritage Center for the Study of Palestinian society.

What we have noticed during the flight that there is a vast difference in the architecture where there are many modern buildings and beautiful “villas,” a stately mansions, but most are abandoned as their owners immigrants to many countries as we mentioned earlier, but the central mystery of this migration is to provide opportunities for work and thus the ability to make money than is available here in Palestine, and then return to their homeland and they building on their land for fear that the Israeli occupation forces confiscated, Kmalk return only their land during the summer they harvest fruits such as olive or accept to be left alone in spite of However, they do not earn very little capital and this shows the deep attachment to their land and their homeland.

However, this migration had multiple effects, including positive and negative, but positive is the ability to make money larger because of the availability of jobs is greater and therefore working to develop their country as we saw the presence of health centers and modern construction and banks where he had Compared village Turmosayya to other villages because of the small number of population, although, there is the bank holding companies and therefore this indicates the availability of capital, and also the positive effects is to obtain a Certificate scientific characteristics. The negative effects they leave their homeland and their land and this makes the village suffers from a lack of population, and thus this provides an opportunity for the occupation to work on land use and occupation and building of settlements and build on that by Mr. Nabil Alkam comment and published several books to talk about this phenomenon (the phenomenon of migration) as we previously.

What we have observed that the migration of Palestinian foreign countries their numbers are growing year after year, but what the people of the village explained to us that the migration of their children in circumstances consistent with the motivations and consequences of migration with the Palestinians, especially to foreign countries is not an anomaly or strange.

Walk in Battir

At 9 am We gathered at the DCO civil administration in the Bethlehem city to Israeli authority and came after students and teachers came and bring us to come down the beginning of the journey to the village of Battir, which is the area c, a rural village rural Palestinian villages west of Bethlehem. Advantage of nature and traditional vegetable gardens as it is famous for eggplant al-battirian .

Israel began excavations in the Battir under tight security, and in the media very discreetly. Israel has taken control of the authority of Israeli flags at a military force with the assistance of the army, and started to work according to a deliberate plan, sources said its research on the structure, after the failed Israeli attempt to achieve its goals between archeology and biblical mythology.

The village of Battir, about 8 km southwest of Jerusalem, and the site where excavation is taking place on a high hill called Khirbat Jews, there has been illegal excavations over the years by ordinary citizens and used by the Jordanian army in 1948 after a military overseer Armistice Line which was built on the territory of the village.

The site as a fortress used by the Jewish community in the revolution against the Romans early second century AD, was the last fort fell, triggering a decisive battle between the military commander of the Jewish Barkopan, the campaign sent by the Roman Emperor Hadrian and was able to defuse the latest revolution in 135 AD .

From the villages of the tribe of Bani Hussein, rising 632 meters above sea level and is located about 8 kilometers to the southwest of Jerusalem, which was followed by her administrative Zionist occupation of the holy city, and the disconnection between the village and the city, followed by the village to the city of Bethlehem, not far from it more of 8 kilometers. Fall in the middle of the distance between the close Walajeh and al-qapo , and the neighboring lands of Beit Jala , Husan, and al-khadir .

Naming: There are several explanations for the nomination of Battir this name, some historians have attributed the name to the Canaanite origin is the( bet - Air )and means house of birds, birds here are intended eagle was a bird nest in the nests of high mountains, and for that which is being called the valley next to the name of the valley Eagles, a wadi Hadar current, or that the name derived from the word Canaanite is also the( bit – Terra) means the sheep fold, because the large number of sheep in the pool is a small plain at the foot of the village they call the bottom or name may be derived from the verb (amputate) Commissioner means the Arab cut off or separated.

In the village, ancient archaeological sites extend its origins to the era of Arab Canaanites, Maurois States that came on the rule of Jerusalem like the Jews, Greeks, Greece, and Muslims, where the soil containing the remains of buildings, ponds and arches, carrying channels spring (Alyanpia) movement of water into a pool reservation for the benefit of farmers in irrigation land.
There are shrines to the graves of some companions, such as place of Sheikh Khattab, Abu Zeid, and al-ommari ,and the graves of the martyrs of the war in 1948. Surround the village, many of the ruins such as Khirbet Jews, Hamdan, and Abu-shusha .

Up through the village temple opened in 1952 AD is 6 km long road between the road the city of Hebron in Jerusalem through the town of Bethlehem over the al-khader and Dheisheh tent next to Bethlehem, or directly through Beit Jala. The total area of the urban village of more than 200 acres, either agricultural land of more than 8000 acres, including 780 Jews raped acres in 1948 AD .

The village was divided into two sections: the occupier under Israeli sovereignty, and one remained under Arab Jordanian Management Board, has provided the Rhodes treaty signed by Jordan to allow the people of Battir exploit agricultural land territories.

Crossing the territory of the village is a railway connecting the city of Jerusalem with al-leid, which you can then move them to many of the Palestinian territories through a network of railways. Thus, the village gained fame for being the last stop of the train to Jerusalem, was having its center of a people from nearby villages who wish to travel to Jerusalem to visit, work or sale of agricultural products.

Now is at stake because of the apartheid wall which the Israeli authorities intend to basing there under the pretext of protecting them.

Battir is an agricultural country, because in many of its territory, olive cultivation, fruit and vegetables, different kinds of forms and forest trees such as balut and Butm, water-fed springs, which spring the country , spring a mosque and spring Faouar, moving water to farmland through a network of channels, coordinated, and eggplant battirian revival of the most famous products . Has been processed Masrtin Olive.

The population of the village in 1922 AD was 550 inhabitants, in 1945 AD it was 1000 people, in 1967 AD it was 1500 inhabitants, and by 2005 it became 5000 people.

There is a government school for boys in spite of the harshness of life, came to insist on the generation of education have been discharged many of its students to universities for education, many of them became engineers, doctors, and there is the pottery factory manager Mr. Sultan, who prepared lunch for the students.

Located within the village, many of the side streets, including street of the cemetery and street field and street seven widows. Became the clinic medical health service delivery. Thousands of families migrated from the village after the war in 1948 AD to the outside, either to the East Bank (Jordan), or the United States in order to study, work and stability and to stay abroad because of the harsh living conditions.