Ms. Mazal Emek, the secretary of the northern Shomron community of Kadim, discussed with Arutz-7 today the difficult situation her town has been going through in the past several years. "Cars leaving and entering the town are fired upon all the time, even though the press does not report this," she said, "and we receive water in large army containers. We basically live the same way they do in some far-off Egyptian village..."
"Yesterday," Emek said, "we discovered again yesterday that it's hard to be neighbors of [the PA-controlled city] Jenin. The forest area around us began to burn, and then caught fire in the yards of the houses themselves. Most of the yards are surrounded by trees, and they all burnt. The homes themselves did not suffer much damage [unlike what Arutz-7 reported yesterday - ed. note], but the town is no longer a beautiful forest green, but rather black and brown... We and the security forces are of the considered opinion that the fire was the result of Arab arson." She said that Kadim has "undergone a number of very difficult years recently, and several families in fact left. Two have come back in the past two months, but have walked into a very difficult situation..."