Israeli bulldozers accompanied by military vehicles invade Al-Tuwani village near Hebron, Tuesday morning. Troops said they want to remove poles set to be used for electricity, International peace activists from the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) told IMEMC over the phone.
According to CPT, the poles are part of the infrastructure for a project to supply the village with electricity, a service promissed to the villagers by the Quartet envoy Tony Blair, during his visit to the village last March.
During the visit, Blair said that the reason of his visit “is really to draw attention to the fact that without a new and different system applying in Area C [the area in the West Bank under Israeli military and civilian control according to the Oslo accords], then it is very hard for Palestinians to enjoy the standard of living that they should to develop their land as they need to live in freedom.”, the CPT reported.
March 19, 2009, Tony Blair meets the Mayor of At-Tuwani (Photo: CPT)
The villagers in the southern hills of Hebron face regular settler and army harassment in an attempt to force them leave their villages to expand Israeli settlements in that area.
The villagers, with some international and Israeli peace activists, often organize nonviolent actions to face the Israeli military and armed settlers.
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