People cannot sleep in their homes any more. More than 300 families in Beit Jala have been spending their nights at different relatives and different friends. Many other families cannot leave their homes, because they are worried the Israeli tanks would destroy them totally. Houses in Beit Jala now look like a battle field, sand bags cover most of the windows and doors. Bedrooms which over look Gilo settlement now are empty rooms.
Families have to spend their nights in inside rooms or under staircases.
In most cases residents of Beit Jala fall asleep out of exhaustion and fatigue sitting down or lying on the floor, when the shelling continues all night long. When will this end. For the last three night Beit Jala, Aida camp, Bethlehem the Holy city, AL-Khader and Husan village have been attacked by heavy artillery and missiles. A friend of mine called Nasser was seriously injured in Husan village. Many others from his village were also injured after Israeli settlers from the near-by settlement of Betar attacked the villagers on their way home from the mosque.