Las casas de Qusra rodeadas por colonos y soldados israelíes: “Me siento en una prisión”
Los habitantes de tres viviendas de la aldea palestina llevan diez días sin poder salir y recibiendo comida de la ONU, mientras el ejército permite a los colonos moverse por la zona
On Monday, Loui Ridi, who had just arrived from Toledo, Ohio, USA, to his besieged family home in the West Bank village of Qusra, hung a large American flag visible to all, reminding everyone that while he is Palestinian and Muslim, he is also an American citizen like everyone else. He pressed his country, Israel's main ally, to end a situation that seemed almost surreal: ten inhabitants of Qusra have been locked inside their own homes for ten days, unable to leave.
First, radical Israeli settlers surrounded them, cutting off their water and electricity, and then - only after Washington intervened - Israel deployed soldiers to the area, ostensibly to protect the local population. The result today is that the mightiest army in the Middle East has not yet prevented a handful of radical settlers from wandering through the area (as one did on Tuesday), while the inhabitants of the encircled houses cannot even go out for groceries and were given food for the last time by the UN team that received a special permit to do so. "I feel like I'm in a prison in my own home. That's how I feel now," Ridi asserts.
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