Everywhere you look, there are rioters, invaders, destroyers, and all in order to remove the Palestinians from their lands.
At the exit from the Meitar checkpoint, the army and police do not allow vehicles to turn towards Ramadin – Dahariya. The reason, apparently, is to block the Bedouins who travel to Dahariya and Ramadin to purchase food, clothing and footwear for Eid al-Adha.
In light of the daily demolitions of houses, they decided to stop shopping in Beersheba as an economic sanction and to concentrate their purchases in Dahriya.
Collective punishment, pure evil.
We continued towards Susiya, to Hamdan Bilal, who is well known known as one of the four Oscar winners with Basel, Yuval and Rachel, for the film “No Other Land.”
Hamdan’s house is located near the house of Najah and Abu Saddam, which Paula visited a week ago, after they were physically attacked by the well-known rioters, Shem Tov Luski and a friend of his. They live in the house of Hamdan’s mother, his brother and their children.
The house is located near Wadi Rahim, on the outskirts of Susiya, near Yatta, opposite ancient Susiya.
We arrived following information that about 30 violent settlers led by Shem Tov Luski and Amishav Peled had set up an outpost about 200 meters from Hamdan’s house. The settlers arrived with sheep, camels, and cows and stayed there for 4 days.
Hamdan complained to the Kiryat Arba police, and, with the assistance of the dedicated lawyer Kamar Mishraki, the Border Police and the army ordered them to leave the place.
We left behind food supplies donated by the marchers protesting against the war and for the return of the abductees. The donations were coordinated by “Rabbis for Human Rights,” who agreed to my request to deliver them with the help of “Another Voice,” a human rights organization from the South, also to the residents of Masafer Yatta.
Little Najad was happy to play with the toys we brought her.
The settlers have relocated – this time on the other side of the village, at the entrance to Wadi Um Nir and near the homes of other families. We saw the tents they had set up by the road, a herd of sheep and a horse.
Ahmad and Halima Nawaja’a live opposite the new outpost and as usual suffer day after day, night after night.
We stopped by their place on our way back to bring clothes and to wish them and the girls for the holiday.
Everywhere you look, rioters, invaders, destroyers and everything to remove the Palestinians from their lands.
#ThisIsTheOccupation
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Meitar checkpoint / Sansana
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Meitar Checkpoint / Sansana The checkpoint is located on the Green Line and serves as a border crossing between Israel and the West Bank. It is managed by the Border Crossing Authority of the Defense Ministry. It is comprised of sections for the transfer of goods as well as a vehicle checkpoint (intended for holders of blue identity cards, foreign nationals or diplomats and international organizations). Passing of Palestinians is prohibited, except for those with entry permits to Israel. Palestinians are permitted to cross on foot only. The crossing has a DCO / DCL / DCL / DCL (District Coordination Office), a customs unit, supervision, and a police unit. In the last year, a breach has been opened in the fence, not far from the crossing. This breach is known to all, including the army. There does not appear to be any interest in blocking it, probably as it permits needed Palestinian workers without the bureaucratic permits to get to work in Israel. Food stalls and a parking area economy have been created, but incidents of violent abuse by border police have also been recorded. Updated April 2022
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Mesafer Yatta
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Masafer Yatta
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South Hebron Hills
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South Hebron Hills
South Hebron Hills is a large area in the West Bank's southern part.
Yatta is a major city in this area: right in the border zone between the fertile region of Hebron and its surroundings and the desert of the Hebron Hills. Yatta has about 64,000 inhabitants.
The surrounding villages are called Masafer Yatta (Yatta's daughter villages). Their inhabitants subsist on livestock and agriculture. Agriculture is possible only in small plots, especially near streams. Most of the area consists of rocky terraces.Since the beginning of the 1980s, many settlements have been established on the agricultural land cultivated by the Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills region: Carmel, Maon, Susia, Masadot Yehuda, Othniel, and more. Since the settlements were established and Palestinians cultivation areas have been reduced; the residents of the South Hebron Hills have been suffering from harassment by the settlers. Attempts to evict and demolish houses have continued, along with withholding water and electricity. The military and police usually refrain from intervening in violent incidents between settlers and Palestinians do not enforce the law when it comes to the investigation of extensive violent Jewish settlers. The harassment in the South Hebron Hills includes attacking and attempting to burn residential tents, harassing dogs, harming herds, and preventing access to pastures.
There are several checkpoints in the South Hebron Hills, on Routes 317 and 60. In most of them, no military presence is apparent, but rather an array of pillboxes monitor the villages. Roadblocks are frequently set up according to the settlers and the army's needs. These are located at the Zif Junction, the Dura-al Fawwar crossing, and the Sheep Junction at the southern entrance to Hebron.
Updated April 2022
Michal TsadikJul-25-2025The interior of the burnt house
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Susiya
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Susiya The Palestinian area lies between the settlement of Susya and a military base. The residents began to settle in areas outside the villages in the 1830s and lived in caves, tents and sukkot. To this day they maintain a traditional lifestyle and their livelihood is based on agriculture and herding. Until the 1948 war, the farmers cultivated areas that extended to the Arad area. As a result of the war, a significant portion of their land left on the Israeli side was lost. After the 1967 war and the Israeli occupation, military camps were established in the area, fire zones and nature reserves were declared, and the land area was further reduced. The Jewish settlement in Susya began in 1979. Since then, there has been a stubborn struggle to remove the remains of Palestinian residents who refuse to leave their place of birth and move to nearby town Yatta. With the development of a tourist site in Khirbet Susya in the late 1980s (an ancient synagogue), dozens of families living in caves in its vicinity were deported. In the second half of the 1990s, a new form of settlement developed in the area - shepherds' farms of individual settlers. This phenomenon increased the tension between the settlers and the original, Palestinian residents, and led to repeated harassment of the residents of the farms towards the Palestinians. At the same time, demolition of buildings and crop destruction by security forces continued, as well as water and electricity prevention. In the Palestinian Susya, as in a large part of the villages of the southern Hebron Mountains, there is no running water, but the water pipe that supplies water to the Susya Jewish settlement passes through it. Palestinians have to buy expensive water that comes in tankers. Solar electricity is provided by a collector system, installed with donation funds. But the frequent demolitions in the villages do not spare water cisterns or the solar panels and power poles designed to transfer solar electricity between the villages. Updated April 2021, Anat T.
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