ABSTRACT
On 20 July 2007 the Sulha Committee instructed Mrs. Rym Musa, along with seventy family members, including nine women and forty-three children under the age of eighteen, to leave their home village of Dir al-Assad in northern Israel. The order came two days after two members of the clan were detained by police on suspicion of killing thirty-five-year-old Amar al-Indi. Since then, the exiled family has been living in rented accommodations in the nearby Arab town of Sachnin and other villages in the area. The Sulha process cannot move forward in earnest without a formal truce agreement between the disputing clans because in its absence, the threat of retaliatory revenge attacks will virtually paralyze the entire community. This makes the reaching of a Hudna an urgent priority of the Jaha, and, indeed, as soon as the Sulha process begins, the Jaha members start negotiating the details of the Hudna agreement.
