In the middle of the night, as bulldozers and armed Israeli soldiers
surrounded his home, Khaled Abu Kheyara, 32, woke up his three young
children and told them their home was being destroyed. “It was around
3:30am when the soldiers arrived to our home,” Abu Kheyara told
Mondoweiss as he sat among all his family’s belongings in his new home
-- a small tent made of metal rods and tarp. “We barely had any time to
take out all of our belongings before they started demolishing the
house,” he said. Abu Kheyara’s home, which he shared with his brother
and his family, was the first of four buildings that Israeli forces
destroyed on Monday morning in the Bethlehem-area village of al-Walaja,
in the southern occupied West Bank.