“Oh, fuck!” “Richard wakes up earlier than usual with the intention of being the first in the shower. The young English man finds it hard to wake up, he is always the last to rise and by his march he would put his neck in delusion until he reaches the checkpointe; sometimes (I will not write most of the time and much less in all, because I would consider myself evil) after having crossed the dark and convulsive checkpoint. Well, today you've taken a useless job, because there's no water in the apartment. (H)Water is its dry source of despair and that of others, because when the news is known, despair has spread to the rest of the comrades. The level that the disaster has reached is unknown: the apartment, the house, the neighborhood or the whole of Hebron. Abu Ali, owner of the floor, told us at first that the problem would be solved two hours later, but the last one is that until four days from now we will not be able to shower or throw the bomb at home. A lot of heat in the street, need for bowel detachment and effluent dancing in both the bathroom and in the roomn.El horror.

*****

“We have received a request to go to Umm al Kheir. Anybody ready? “Lulu hasn’t had time to finish the question. Joxemari and I have come up with speed, driven by our noble feelings. We didn’t know where we were going or what we were going to go, but at least we would have the opportunity to shower and, as I would say, to escape the “overloaded environment.” Yes, in difficult situations always the Basques (or) always in the front line (I am Basque, born and raised in Mallorca and a man who knows Euskera at once? Digression). “Will we go by bus or walk?” we ask our coordinator Lulu. When we saw that the sign of awe had stuck in his face, we noticed that we've thrown another nonsense. Despite being only 19 kilometers from Hebron, cars have to go around and around until they reach the town by the checkpoints; if we were walking, we would die drowned in our sweat or innate victims, as Umm al Kheir is in a hot desert. It wouldn't be a very heroic finish. We have therefore contacted a humm of the Kheiri who works in Hebron, Azeez, who has taken us to his home town.

We have agreed to meet a Palestinian police station. We realized that in the police station the atmosphere is quiet, very quiet, too quiet. With all the hard experiences we've lived in the Old Town, it looks like we were in another country, on another planet, in a universe. Or is it perhaps the Palestinian National Authority that has traveled to another dimension within Dr. Who's telephone booth? Another digression.

*****

"What do you know about my people?" Poker face. Along the way we learned of the existence of Umm al Kheir through Azeez. The people are the result of the Nakba of 1948, that is, the exodus of the Palestinians. Once the State of Israel had been established, several Bedouins living in the Arad desert had to flee their areas and for years they had gone back and forth. In 1956, they bought these lands in the Hebron region from neighbors in Yatta, where they settled. They dedicated themselves to grazing, the main activity of the Bedouins, and for 25 years they dedicated themselves to a normal life as quiet as possible in this part of the world. It seemed as if for once they had found their corner. But in 1981, everything changed. Some Israeli citizens decided that these Bedouin lands could be appropriate for building their own homes. That is normal, for example, I have also thought many times that instead of living on a small floor, well, why not?, I could live in a house with a garden, and I have no doubt that my (almost) professional activity without defects deserves a higher wage. Unfortunately, the Government of Navarre is not as generous as the State of Israel and to put the books on our small but nice floor I will have to continue playing along the Tetrix, and most of the time I lost. The Israeli Government, for its part, confiscated its legitimate owners, the Arab Bedouins, some lands and built the Karmel colony. What does the people demand? Easy, right?

*****

“We’ve arrived. This is our House of the People. In recent years it has been knocked down twice and we are sure that they will soon try again. – In front of the house, some friends were erecting a metal structure. Most of them were not Arabs, and we later learned that they were a group of Jews opposed to the occupation. Working with a foot in the car of Azéz we have worked intensively and dexterously, as we are (or) Euskaldunes, and we have finished the structure at the orders of a young Awdah, who looks like a leader. Then, we have covered it with a cloth and we have equipped it with colored mattresses and cushions to make it rich inside. Of course, the contribution of the Basques has been decisive for the store to be on time. Besides being the first Europeans to come to America and the best fishermen in the Universe, it is known that the successors of Aitor are usually very skilled in building Bedouin stores in the deserts of Arabia. Your oysters will show you once.

Our memorable and epic action has given us the opportunity to meet a good number of citizens: Ali, Ahmed, Awdah, Mahmoud... Truly kind. I don't know how many liters of tea we've drunk, and we've been invited to dinner twice! Diet of Palestine Styl The ladies have not had dinner with us, or in the same room, except for a moment the woman of Azéz and her mother for a long time. Yes, the women we have met on the street have been very welcoming and we have changed a few words with someone, just usual greetings and similar formulas. We have made hyper-short meetings with a friendly smile. As long as we drink the infusions one after the other, we have known the current situation of the people.

*****

– The delegation of the Palestinian National Authority came, made many orders and gave us 3,000 shekels (770 €). – For our astonishment, Navarre is not the only territory in which it is zoned. As a result of the Oslo agreements, the West Bank is divided into three areas. At first, this zoning had to be provisional and the Palestinian National Authority (e.g.) had to assume more and more powers until the State of Palestine (ANP) was established. Such definite eventualities. Let's see what this classification looks like:

Area A - Palestinian Authority (seriously!) It is under the mandate of the National and is concerned with security and civil affairs. It represents 18% of the territory, and covers both the major cities and their surroundings, except the colonies, the of course. In theory, the Israelis could not enter those areas, but man still knows no place where the powerful Israeli army has no right or capacity to enter.

The Palestinian National Authority (ja, ja, ja) and the State of Israel share the management of zone B. The Palestinians are engaged in civil duties and military duties together with the Israelis. That is, when Netanyahu's boys and girls enter that area, they remember the brave forces of the Ramallah government that had to do something at the other end of the site, that didn't happen to them at the time, but they're sure they'll remember it along the way. That's right, let the trip there be as fast as possible. These areas occupy 21 per cent of the Palestinian land and there is no colony in them. How else?

The State of Israel has total civilian and military competence over area C, I would like to say more total. It is 61 per cent of the territory, in which all the colonies are included (no doubt? ), roads connecting the colonies, where only Israelis can drive the vehicle, land and “security zones”, such as lands next to the Wall. Today, some 400,000 settlers have their house in the area that God has given them and some 150,000 Palestinians, most of them Bedouins, are barely living in the small land that God has not yet taken away from them. The inhabitants of Umm al Kheir have had to be part of the last group.

*****

“The chickens in Cologne don’t know the darkness. We don't have electricity. “We have turned around for the people, fast because the people are very small. We have seen the camp responding time and again to the question “Barcelona or Madrid?” Athletic de Bilbao. It is curious how much you know in Palestine about the Spanish football championship, much more than I do; you know health and all that. We have removed some stones from the field without grass because tomorrow there is a match and we have to avoid injuries, and then we have seen some pictures in the House of the People, until the time we waited to spend the time. One day we would have the opportunity to fulfill the obscene desire to shower! I've drawn the water cooling the most innermost aspects of my body, and the aroma of the soap pulling away from me the penetrating stench, while I was singing under the jet "See Mountaineers"; I've put my goose skin just by thinking. But, oh, fuck!, we have not been able to fulfill our dream, because in the village there are no streams of water and the liquid element is very scarce and beautiful here. It is another cruel consequence of the occupation.

Mahmoud explains to us that although the State of Israel should meet the basic needs of the inhabitants of area C, what is really concerned is only with the settlers. What is more, complicating conditions is a strategy to get the Bedouins out of their lands, and that is why, for example, the Arabs have no water flow, cannot build on their lands, and if they have electricity, it is thanks to a generator bought by the Bedouins and a German aid programme to install solar panels. Other strategies are, for example, to offer money in exchange for leaving the village or directly to demolish the houses and leave the families on the street (well, if there are streets). As has already been mentioned, the bulldozer have torn down the Village House twice, guarded by soldiers and by their weapons of all colours and sizes. Both the demolished Consistorial House and other destroyed houses were built with the help of the European Union. Long live international cooperation!

However, I have not completely believed in electricity, because high voltage cables pass over the people. To hunt him down with lies, I asked Mahmoud what those cables are. “You see the colony?” Of course, the people and the colony are together, separated by a fence. I've seen one settler jogging, another pulling out a dog. What was once built on a land that was made of Bedouins looks nice, of modern urbanization, ideal to house the retirees. It seemed like an oasis of tranquillity until I saw a settler named A 47 or Cetme, or whatever. -Well, those cables go from the colony to the breeding of settlers. We don't have electricity. We've gone to the chicken coop, and it's true that I couldn't reach Mahmoud.

*****

“Don’t think you’ll fall asleep right away. Tonight we will talk, we will reify and maybe we will dance and everything will go well. “That’s what Awdah tells us. We've spent the night in a store that we've built with great dexterity and work. Fortunately, and contrary to the perverse view of some, it has not fallen. We have talked to Awdah and Ahmed and laughed until we burst a few hours in the evening. It's also been an attempt to dance, but it's stayed there, thanks to all the gods, because it was fatigued. They are very friendly young people and have not made any mention of our stench. It's estimated. We slept all four together. Despite the small difference, Basques (or) dominate the competition of snoring.

*****

“The water has come back. We can have a shower. – In the morning we got up early and turned around to school. In the village we have been told that there are many university students in the town, who have studied in Hebron. And it tells the truth, at least, that almost everyone with us has studied a career or a degree, or are doing it; what we've known are audiovisual, engineering, philology and magisterium. The year Hamad arrives in London to study Law thanks to a scholarship. He has told us that as soon as he finishes he will return to the people, because he wants to complete his studies to help improve the conditions of his neighbours. To know what the future will bring.

We were kicked out of school because they were doing tests and our presence seemed to distract the students. Well, we're leaving. Along the way we met a pastor and had a very lively conversation, in Arabic and we in English, until we realized that he understood our English as “good” as we Arabic; therefore, the conversation has become Arab-Basque. I would like to say that all the oppressed peoples of the world have the same language, that is to say, that of solidarity, or that some Épic-Poetic motto like this has been fulfilled, but the truth is that we have not understood each other at all. And yet, we've been doing gestures for quite a while, trying to interpret and give explanations.

After lunch we saw the football match, at 16:00 in the afternoon! Can you imagine a football game in a sauna? Well, some of that had already been organized. A few years ago, I had a knee injury, because it's been a perfect excuse not to participate in that collective suicide attempt. Joxemari has not invented any excuse and has lost not a minute; with the camera in his hand, he has risen from the seat and has begun to take some images. The local team has, of course, won. On the other hand, Lulu has called us and told us, among other things, that he had just had a shower. Also, Richard was a shower, waking up from his nap. Envy is one of the worst sins and we are great sinners. We have water on the floor.

*****

"Will you come back?" Tell your friends to come here whenever they want. – The time has come to say goodbye, because we had to take the road to Hebron. Please have told us to come back and we will come back. The friends and friends who have gathered us have been really kind and kind, to the point of getting excited, knowing the situation they live even longer. And I would not like to express the point that all the Palestinians (or, for example, all the indigenous people of the Amazon, or all the Arbizuis at all times) are super-fantastic, but it is true that the Bedouins who have been with us have made us feel more satisfied than happy. In any case, we would come back above all because the presence of international representatives is necessary in Umm al Kheir; this has been communicated to us by the people. They are convinced that at any time the Israeli bulldozer will try to demolish more housing and the People's House again. Unfortunately, even if they are people from Europe or America, the end of the dwellings may be similar to the previous ones, but, thanks to the testimony of the activists, this injustice would not be kept secret, or at least not at all.

*****

- Get out of the toilet, Richard! Go out! To shower first! No, I need more, because I have the dust in all the holes in my body! – We started screaming and down the pants and entered the Joxemari and I floor, absorbed in the relentless struggle for the shower. Ass of chickens, freshness, sweet aroma, pleasure, finishing... “The boys, of the CPT we are called because they have stopped Mahmounn,” has been Lulu’s greeting. After being detained in the market, the soldiers have gone home looking for their younger brother. Fortunately the child was not there, but the military has threatened his relatives: they have been told that they will come back when they least expect him, that if they take Mohanned they will beat him to death and they will also beat their relatives. They've asked us to spend the night at home, because they're really scared. Let's go straight away.

“Oh, fuck!”