Mu’arajat

Awdah Hathalin (1994-2025).    August 11, 2025

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Awdah Hathalin (r.), with activists, including Michal Peleg, 2016. Photograph: Amir Bitan

David:

I’m sorry to say that these recent blog reports keep turning into obituaries, including the loss of the lovely village of Mu‘arrajat (but see below). This is life in the Occupation. People, Palestinians, are killed routinely, and with total impunity, by the settlers. As Awdah himself said in an interview two weeks before he was murdered, “The life here is not a life anymore.

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In Memoriam Mu’arrajat. text: David Shulman; photographs: Margaret Olin

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The village of Mu‘arrajat is gone, ravaged and despoiled by savage settlers. There were years of harassment, large-scale theft, repeated violence, and death-threats.  On July 3, 2025, after a gruesome night, the villagers took apart their homes, loaded their few possessions onto trucks, and left. Remember that date of infamy.

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