Qawawis - settlers destroy fields and throw stones and injure
Qawawis, South Hebron Hill
Our shift was to the Abu Aram family, following information we had received about an event in the village. We sat with Taleb and his son Saber, and several women and they told us what had happened.
On 22.12.25, about 30 settlers from several settlements arrived at agricultural areas that the landowners were cultivating. The Palestinians had a permit from the DCO, and a representative also accompanied the farmers during the ploughing. The settlers (in civilian clothes, sometimes wearing IDF uniforms) ignored the DCO representatives, and one of them cut the wheel from one of the two tractors that were there. The settler fled with the encouragement of one of the DCO members. The second tractor drove to Qawawis and after a while, they returned to cultivate the area, on the advice of the DCO representatives.
Not long after, about 40 settlers arrived and some of them got on to the tractor, beat the driver, and injured him. Taleb says (speaking good Hebrew) that at the same time, a flock from Mitzpe Yair outpost arrived on his land, on which barley had already begun to grow, and the sheep ate the little that would have helped to feed the family’s flock.
Taleb called the police five times, but as happens in most cases, they did not come. Dozens of settlers arrived in Qawawis, threw stones at the houses and their occupants, injured 5 people who had to be hospitalized in the Yatta Hospital.
Two days later, the police summoned Jibrin Abu Aram, whom we visited recently, to give testimony about the incident. He was interrogated and arrested on the charge of throwing stones. After two days in detention in Kiryat Arba, he was transferred to Ofer Prison until 3.2.2025, when he will be put on trial.
The legal treatment of Jibrin is by attorney Riham Nasser.
In a telephone conversation on February 5, 2025, Taleb informed us that the trial has already been postponed twice.
Again and again, Jewish rioters commit crimes, and the blame falls on the unfortunate Palestinians who have no life.
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Location Description
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
Daphna JungMar-16-2025Simia: Farhan and his wife
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