Pamwe ndiyo mamiriro ekuchengetedza akanyarara, kana kuti inguva yekupisa yaFebruary yakagara mudunhu kubva svondo rapfuura - asi chero chikonzero, huwandu hwevashanyi vanodirana kuJeriko hwakakwira svondo rapfuura, kusvika zviuru makumi maviri nezvina.
Hapana munhu muindasitiri yekushanya anogona kutaura chaizvo kuti kuwedzera kwakawanda sei uku, asi pane chibvumirano chakazara chekuti Jeriko ndiyo nzvimbo yekushanya yePalestine.
Sekureva kwemapurisa ekushanya kwePalestine uye ekare, vangangoita chikamu chimwe muzvitatu chevakashanyira Jericho svondo rapfuura vaive vashanyi vekunze, vangangoita zviuru gumi nezviviri vaive maPalestine kubva kuWest Bank uye zviuru zvina nemazana mashanu maPalestine ane vagari veIsrael.
The spike mukushanya inhau dzakanaka kuguta reJeriko, iro riri kuronga mhemberero huru muna Gumiguru 2010 yekucherekedza makore gumi eguta reWest Bank.
"Tiri kugadzirisa zvivakwa, tine zvirongwa zvekushanya zvekusimudzira kushanya uye tiri kusimudzira guta kuburikidza nekushambadzira," Wiam Ariqat, mukuru wePublic Relations and Culture Department kuJeriko Municipality akadaro.
Manisiparati anoronga kuita izvi nekukwezva vega vega kuti vapinde muguta.
"Jeriko iguta repasi rose," Ariqat akadaro. “Munguva pfupi yapfuura, vashanyi vakawanda vakapfuura nomuJeriko. Tiri kutarisa kuti vashanyi ava vapfuure nemuguta voshanyira nzvimbo imwe chete kana mbiri chete – tinoda kuti vashanyi ava vapedze nguva yakawanda vari pano, vamire muJeriko, vaende kumahotera, vawane pekugara uye vadye masikati muno.”
Kuendesa mari yezororo yevashanyi ndiro rimwe rematambudziko makuru kuchikamu cheIsrael nePalestine chekushanya, ose ari kurwira homwe imwe chete.
MaPalestine anowanzo kunyunyuta kuti maIsrael anoronga nzendo dzevashanyi vekunze uye vanova nechokwadi chekuti mari inopinda mumahotera avo, madhairekitori, maresitorendi uye zvinokwezva vashanyi, zvichitonyima vezera ravo rePalestine purofiti yekushanya.
"Ivo zvakare vanodzora miganhu, masangano ekufambisa, kusimudzira, madhairekitori uye zvekufambisa," Ariqat akadaro. “Tinoda kushandura pfungwa iyi. Kuti dunhu ribatsirwe, vanofanira kushandira pamwe nekuti vashanyi vari kuronga kushanyira Jeriko vari kuronga kushanyira nharaunda yacho yose – Jeriko, Israel, Jordan neEgypt.”
Iyyad Hamdan, director wezvekushanya uye nzvimbo dzekuchera matongo muJeriko yePalestine Ministry of Tourism akati kuwedzera kwevashanyi veJeriko kuchangotanga mwaka wekushanya, mamiriro ekunze anofadza uye nekuvandudzika kwekuchengetedza mamiriro.
"Mazuvano mamiriro ari nani, asi dzimwe nguva nzvimbo dzekutarisa dzinoita kuti zvinhu zviomere vashanyi," Hamdan akadaro. "Kana tikaenzanisa mamiriro ezvinhu iye zvino nemamiriro ezvinhu muna 2000, pakutanga kweIntifada [kumukira kwePalestine], kwakanyarara uye kune vashanyi vakawanda."
Asi Hamdan akati hukama hwakasimba pakati pehurumende yeIsrael iripo nePalestinian Authority (PA) sechikonzero chekusadyidzana pakati pevakuru vavo vekushanya.
Ghassan Sadeq, maneja wezvemari uye bhizinesi rekutsigira paInterContinental Hotel muJeriko akati kunze kwekutanga kwa2009, panguva yehondo muGaza, kwave nekukwira kwenhamba dzevashanyi veJeriko kubvira 2008.
Asi zvinosiririsa, Sadeq akati, kunyangwe nenhamba dzinokurudzira, chokwadi ndechekuti vashanyi vachiri kuda kugara mumahotera kuJerusarema zvisinei nemitengo yemakwikwi yaanopihwa nehotera.
"Muna 2007, takaenda kumasangano ekufambisa eIsrael tikavapa mabhurocha emahotera edu," akadaro. “Takati, ‘kana mukatitumira vashanyi, tichavarongera kuchengeteka, muJeriko hamuna matambudziko.’ Asi havana kutumira kana munhu mumwe chete kubva kumapoka avo evashanyi. Ichiri dambudziko.”
Sadeq anotenda kuti pasi pemamiriro ezvematongerwo enyika aripo uye chiyero chekubatana pakati pemativi maviri aya, chiitiko chega apo vashanyi veIsrael vanotumira vashanyi kumahotera muBheterehema kana Jeriko kana mahotera ari muJerusarema akazara.
Mwedzi wapera zvakashumwa kuti mukuru weIsrael Central Command uye mukuru weCivil Administration vaizobvumira vatungamiri veIsrael kuti vaende kuJeriko neBhetrehema nemapoka evashanyi vasiri vaIsraeri uye kuvatungamirira munzvimbo dzePalestinian Authority, pane chikumbiro kubva kuIsrael. Tourism Ministry.
Ariqat akaratidza kusava nechokwadi nerubatsiro rwechirongwa ichi.
"Zvimwe zvingabatsira kuwedzera huwandu hwevashanyi, asi vanotumira mameseji avo kuvashanyi uye isu hatizvifarire," akadaro. "Tine meseji yedu uye chiono chedu uye tinoda kuonana nevashanyi."
