Health services (with emergency) – Bakery – Everyday essentials’ shops – Shops – Women’s beauty salon – Barbershop – Pedestrian street and stairs (safe and green pathways) – Tree planting, expansion, and opening of streets – Public transportation and parking (vertical) – School expansion – Kindergarten – Women’s craft training center – Social spaces and parks – Sports facilities – Services facilities – Forests (afforestation of unused land) – Bazaar – Light train

Samah Fadel Yehya

Samah’s main concern was the loss of spontaneous socializing among Ein Qiniya’s community, and the disconnection between the latter and families in neighboring villages and towns. She expressed her desire to preserve the rural nature of Ein Qiniya, and pictured introducing a light rail to encourage internal tourism, areas for socialization, gardens, pedestrian paths, basic services and supplies shops, a women’s center, among others. She wished her house to have a porch and a front garden with games for her children, and emphasized: “I want to preserve the village aire, do not forget that our village has many water springs and is very green. I want it to remain a village but developed, without turning into a city with stacked buildings. We only want the basics – abandoned roads to get lighting, to preserve the water* [springs and streams] and the trees as they are today, because I want it to remain as natural as it is.”

* There are 12 water springs in Ein Qiniya, and most of its houses lie on the slopes of two hills, bounded from the north by Wadi alDilb and from the south Wadi alOqdeh (until it merges into the earlier). Along both wadis significant agricultural production still takes place and provides livelihoods for hundreds of families, in spite of the undermining of the sector by zionist colonial violence, and by the systemic neglect Palestinian politics since the Oslo Accords.