Abu Seif

Abu Seif, who volunteers at the Burqa local council hopes to become an English teacher in the local school after graduating from Al Najah University in Nablus.

Abu Seif's family - his father, a tile layer, five sisters and a younger brother - lives on the road adjacent to the only main street into the village, which is also the only road to Homesh.More than once, settler buses and cars have been pelted with stones and even shot at by armed Palestinians.Thus, this road has become more of a curse for the Abu Seif family than anything else.

"Following each attack on a settler bus, the army closes the road and raids the homes nearby under the pretext of searching for the assailants or obtaining information about them," explains Abu Seif."My family and I have been pulled out of our house at least 10 times.Sometimes our hands are tied behind our backs and other times we are blindfolded.They do not hesitate to throw us in the bushes for hours on end without heed to sun or rain.I hope they leave and never come back," Abu Seif says.

Homesh is one of four West Bank settlements that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to evacuate as part of his unilateral disengagement plan.