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My friend, the Rev. Dick Toll, didn’t sleep much last Saturday night in the Mt. Scopus Hotel on the Mount of Olives. One generally sleeps better with the windows open in Jerusalem’s heat and the Israeli settlers were loud and late with their revelry. Getting up to look out the window, Dick noticed dozens of members of Israel’s army milling about and an ambulance stationed nearby.
Then at 4:30 a.m., the Reverend heard a woman’s screams – long, loud and agonizing. Settlers and soldiers, we learned later, pushed their way into her house, removed her and her ailing husband, threw out all of the furniture and moved settlers into the residence the couple had occupied for nearly 60 years.
Next day Dick and others spoke with her as she sat in front of a tent on the site. She was alone facing an uncertain future since, with the middle-of-the-night eviction, her husband's condition worsened. Refusing the Israeli ambulance, they had to wait sime time before a Palestinian ambulance arrived to take her husband to the hospital. He died a few days later
Does it seem ironic that the house in question had been built in a relief effort after the 1948 expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes by the Israelis, and that the home had been deeded to the Palestinian family by UNRWA, the United Nations Refugee and Welfare Agency?
This kind of unholy action is happening every day in this Holy Land. And the world does not see.
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