Jerusalem – On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces allowed 600 Palestinian Police, previously deployed in Jordan and trained by the U.S. Army, to take control of all security in Hebron, including the hills overlooking the Jewish community of Kiryat Arba and the small Jewish community in the old city of Hebron.

On Saturday night, Israeli police and Israeli paramilitary border patrol broke into the home of Eisheva and Noam Federman, located between Hebron and Kiryat Arba, without any warning. They smashed the windows in the children’s rooms and crawled through on top of the sleeping children.

Mr. Federman was beaten to the ground after being awaken in the middle of the night when strangers were climbing through his homes windows. The grandchildren have taken refuge with their grandparents, wearing their pajamas, since they were not allowed to dress or take any clothes with them).

The children said they woke up at about 2 a.m. when someone (a police officer evidently) smashed the glass out of their bedroom window and climbed through.

There is literally nothing left of their home. They bulldozed the remains and drove his family into the night, beating them with their clubs as the children were reluctantly forced from their family home. The nine children, aged 2 years to 17 years, were driven out in their pajamas without even their coats or their shoes.

The Israeli police were asked for their response, and a spokesman said the Israel Civil Administration had decided to “evacuate” the Federman home and documentation would be provided later. The question then was referred to the Israeli Army spokesperson, which simply said that it was an illegally constructed home.

David Bedein can be reached at dbedein@israelbehindthenews.com. His Web site is www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com

©The Bulletin 2008

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David Bedein
David Bedein
David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center's investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict - UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein's 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education'   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein's work can be found at: www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.

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