- by Marianna Harris

I feel absolutely sick.  The bulldozers pulled out of Susiya in the South Hebron Hills and apparently they went to Al Aqaba where I have heard they destroyed the home of Khaled.  I believe  that is the person we visited in 2010.  I have attached a photo of our group eating the lunch his family had prepared for us.  A photo of his family (now 5 years older) and a photo of the solar power battery which was one of the many improvements he had proudly made to his home because the Israelis denied the village power or water.
 
This is so absolutely cruel.  The man we met is so hard-working to make a beautiful life for his family.  There was a demolition order on their door in 2010 and I used his story to talk about dispossession for Palestinians and the arbitrariness of it.  It breaks my heart.  All that time and effort and compassion poured into Susiya and collateral damage some distance away for this particular family.
 
I am so angry.  And I feel so powerless.  I watched a BBC program about the refugees at Calais.  I see hundreds of people drowning in the Mediterranean.  I saw a program about Hanford where the Americans worked on building the nuclear bomb.  And today is Hiroshima Day.  All my life Hiroshima Day has been the day after my birthday.  Literally, the day after I was born this tragedy was unleashed on the world.