Following the destruction of the Federman Farm

More on the destruction of the Federman and Tor homes motzei Shabbat. The homes of these 2 families were completely razed to the ground by bulldozers and all their belongings crushed and destroyed. For the Federman's
this means what one accumulates in 18 years of
marriage - photo albums, personal irreplaceable items in addition to all the necessary things of life.

Photos by David Wilder

Help from the community of Kiryat Arba and Hebron, from Efrat and from Jerusalem and other areas is pouring in. A small truckload of personal goods, food, household needs was delivered this afternoon. I was among those traveling to the Federman Farm and we toured the Farm and it's destruction. The physical and visual reality of it was even worse than the pictures.....the viciousness and brutality of the bulldozer drivers crushing and spreading the contents of these homes was palpable.

Remarkably Noam and Elisheva Federman, and Sinai and Rivka Tor, were strong and full of faith. While we tried to encourage them, we were the one who were uplifted by their strength. (Hear Elisheva's first hand account of what happened that night).

Photo of Elisheva Federman and her daughter with the goods brought by friends from Efrat and Jerusalem - Photo by Gemma Blech

Destruction of Federman Farm

Last night, in the middle of the night, at 1 am to be exact, 2 Jewish families in Kiryat Arba were awakened by phone calls from friends telling them that Israeli Yassam policemen were on their way to their houses. Before the owners could even respond to the calls, one family (with 4 children) had a knock at the door and were told they had 3 minutes to leave before the house was destroyed, the other family (9 children) had no warning as 100 or more black uniformed policemen broke down all the doors and smashed the windows, climbing into the house and tearing small children, terrified and screaming from their beds.

This is what the Israeli government has come to in it's frenzied attempts to appease the world's demands that Jews cease our existence in Eretz Yisrael.

The issue is settling the Land - specifically at this point, in Judea and Samaria. The two homes in questions were built on a tract of land in Kiryat Arba, an entirely Jewish town. The Federman Farm, as it is called, has been there for over 10 years, and the Federmans have right of possession of the land. They have lived on the property for 2-1/2 years and legal proceedings were in process, but the government never issued the Federman's a building permit.

Many people in Judea and Samaria - both Jews and arabs - build homes on land without permits because the government drags its' feet for years in issuing the permits. When the government needs to "make a statement" against Jewish ownership and settlment of our Land, they attack and destroy the Jewish homes and caravans - calling them "illegal outposts". Very rarely is anything ever done to touch the hundreds and hundreds of "illegal arab outposts", as that would be politically incorrect and send the wrong message. It is Jews who are evacuated.

The devastation to the home and the family was horrendous. Because the Federman's knew nothing of the impending attack, the children assumed they were in the midst of a terror attack; the children were beaten and one girl's fingers broken. The yassamniks tore a year old infant from the mother's arms and separated her (the mother) from her babies.

More on this as it develops.........