[[{"content_id":"20694","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Palestinian house inside cage in Jewish settlement","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2011-02-23 12:14:00","content_summary":"","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":"The al-Ghirayib family lives in one of the stranger manifestations of Israel's 43-year occupation of the West Bank: a Palestinian house inside a metal cage inside an Israeli settlement.\r\nThe family's 10 members, four of them children, can only reach the house via a 40-yard (meter) passageway connecting them to the Arab village of Beit Ijza farther down a hill. The passageway passes over a road used by Israeli army jeeps and is lined on both sides with a 24-foot-high (8-meter) heavy-duty metal fence.\r\nThe same fence rings the simple one-story house, separating it from the surrounding settlement houses. Some of those dwellings are so close that the family can hear the insults shouted by a nearby Jewish neighbor.\r\nWhile al-Ghirayibs' situation reflects the pressures put on their communities by Israel's more than 120 West Bank settlements.\r\nThe home was the only one in the village of about 700 people on the settlement side of the barrier.\r\nAl-Ghirayib, who works in a local metal shop, said he and his family tried to stop the construction crews and the army detained them. When they were released, the cage was in place, he said. Security cameras at the heavy metal gate at the end of the passageway monitor all who come and go.\r\nHe said army officers have recently threatened to shut the gate, saying village children come in to throw stones at the settlement.\r\n"They have cameras. If they see kids throwing stones, they can come shoot them," his 74-year-old father, Sabri told AP. "Am I supposed to guard the gate?"","content_html":"


The al-Ghirayib family lives in one of the stranger manifestations of Israel's 43-year occupation of the West Bank: a Palestinian house inside a metal cage inside an Israeli settlement.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

The family's 10 members, four of them children, can only reach the house via a 40-yard (meter) passageway connecting them to the Arab village of Beit Ijza farther down a hill. The passageway passes over a road used by Israeli army jeeps and is lined on both sides with a 24-foot-high (8-meter) heavy-duty metal fence.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

The same fence rings the simple one-story house, separating it from the surrounding settlement houses. Some of those dwellings are so close that the family can hear the insults shouted by a nearby Jewish neighbor.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

While al-Ghirayibs' situation reflects the pressures put on their communities by Israel's more than 120 West Bank settlements.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

The home was the only one in the village of about 700 people on the settlement side of the barrier.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

Al-Ghirayib, who works in a local metal shop, said he and his family tried to stop the construction crews and the army detained them. When they were released, the cage was in place, he said. Security cameras at the heavy metal gate at the end of the passageway monitor all who come and go.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

He said army officers have recently threatened to shut the gate, saying village children come in to throw stones at the settlement.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

"They have cameras. If they see kids throwing stones, they can come shoot them," his 74-year-old father, Sabri told AP. "Am I supposed to guard the gate?"<\/font><\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2011-02-23 12:14:00","content_date_finish":"2011-02-23 12:14:00","content_date_register":"2011-02-23 12:14:00","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"20688","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":null,"attach_date_register":null,"attach_id":null,"attach_file_ext":null,"attach_file_header":null,"attach_img_type":null,"attach_img_width":null,"attach_img_height":null,"attach_file_media":null,"attach_show_watermark":null,"score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"324","visit_date_last":"2025-05-09 18:03:50","attach_title":null,"node_title":"Commentaries","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":134, \"left\":25, \"right\":26}]"}]]