Emergency call to save Jayyous
saleh on December 19th, 2004Palestinian farmer Sharif Omar, from the West Bank village of Jayyous, was among the Palestinian delegation to the Paris European Social Forum in 2003 and also during the recent Netherlands Social Forum.
In his function as chairman of the organization of farmers affected by the Wall, he has also been a frequent guest in many other European countries and has received broad media coverage on many occasions.
This emergency call is due to Israel’s sudden attempt to expropriate the land belonging to Palestinian farmer Sharif Omar and his colleagues for the purpose of building a complete new settlement.
No sooner did Sharif Omar return to Jayyous, we received the shocking information that the bulldozers have already begun their work. we have learned that by now more than a hundred olive trees have been uprooted.
The emergency call is to anyone who is travelling to the Occupied territories to travel to Jayyous. Any individual or delegation would be welcome, as there is no time to loose! There is already a peace camp on the land, including solidarity Israeli?s.
Further updates on the situation in Jayyous is available here including an excellent article by the Christian Science Monitor
