Fuqeiqis - a village under siege!
Location: Fuqeiqis is a small village near the settlements of Negohot A and B. The necessities of life and supplies rely on the villages (towns) of Khursa to the east and Beit Awa to the west. Rania’s family, the Jadallah family, lives in a separate compound from the village, right between the two Nagohot settlements and next to Hagai’s sheep farm.
In the attached photo, taken by Muhammad about two months ago, the Jadallah family home is visible.
In a telephone conversation, Rania says that at the beginning of the war, on the Shabbat of Simhat Torah, the exits from the village, both in the direction of Khursa and in the direction of Beit Awa, were blocked. There is no crossing by car or on foot. They were thus besieged with no passage and no supplies. After about a week, when the children’s milk also ran out, they called the army – for candy. The army opened the blockade towards Beit Awa for four hours. Then, renew the blocks.
In general, all transportation has been suspended. Because of this, she moved with two of her sisters to live (temporarily) in Dura, where they work in some store and in a factory. Otherwise, she could not continue working. South Mount Hebron. Fuqeiqis – a village under siege!
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
Muhammad D.Apr-10-2025אבתסאם ודוניה אבו שארח' עם סמדר ברהווה
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