Mountain Guardians
“Ammar…” one of the masked men shouted loudly, as if he knew him, but Ammar did not turn around or move, as if he was not concerned with this name.
Then the masked man ran towards Ammar and picked him up before the soldiers could reach him and ran with him towards the village. When they reached a safe place the masked man said, “What were you doing there? Are you crazy?” Ammar did not say a word but hugged the masked man and after two minutes, “What are you doing here? I thought you were in the mosque,” Ammar said in a humble voice.
This text is part of a story presented by the writer Ahmed Hourani for children. In it, he documented the story of the guards of Mount Sabih in the village of Beita, north of the West Bank. Since May 2021, they have been continuing their popular resistance, which began after a group of settlers attempted to establish the "Avitar" settlement outpost on the mountain. During this, the villagers created resistance activities and nightly disruption activities that forced the settlers to evacuate the settlement.
The story, which summarizes this exceptional experience of popular resistance in Palestine in simple language and realistic events for children, deals with the story of the child "Ammar" who comes from America to visit his family in Beita and begins to learn about what is happening in the village while accompanying his cousins "Mohammed" and "Maha" who, despite their young age, are accustomed to participating in the mountain activities like all the children of the village.
Keywords: Ahmed Hourani, Ahmed Hourani
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Language: Arab
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