South Hebron Hills
While on the road Nasser phoned from Susiya and told us that the IDF was preparing roadblocks on all dirt roads entering the settlements along Road 317.
And everything is still in place so that our vehicle, cannot travel there.
After two weeks that Lakia wwas in closure Muhammad returned and we were able to do a shift. Because the day before there had been demonstrations in Hebron we preferred not to try and enter. We decided to see how the Jadallah family living in Ifigigis was doing, A slightly scattered settlement in the hills after Khursa which stands in the middle between the two settlements Negohot A and Negohot B. They tell of the sounds of development in Negohot b. We looked and noticed the heavy tools working there. It seems to them and to us that they are trying to pave a road which will join the two Israeli settlements. In our previous report we sent photos.
There the work was stopped for the time being because the Palestinians organized and placed a tent that blocks the road. Since water cisterns were also dug, the civil administration issued demolition orders for everything.
As stated, there is a clear trend.
The concern, of course, is that they also want to expand the settlements and create a territorial continuum between the two. All this when the radio promises that Israel has agreed to freeze the expansion of settlements in exchange for a peace agreement with the emirates.
Were it not for the Corona we could have followed this up and verified what is really happening there.
The family also tells us that their father was again fined 5000 shekel because he tried to enter Israel to work when it was claimed that he was sick with Corona. Where do they get 10,000 shekels to pay? They show a certificate from a local doctor writing that no one has the virus and they showed it to the Civil Administration but there has been no response.
We asked if they could not get help from the PA but there is no cooperation between Israel and the PA now. We suggested calling the Physicians for Human Rights. The daughter says she has a phone and she knows whom to contact and she will try. This is the only possibility in the crazy situation that exists today.
The man is old and at an age where he can enter without a permit to work and yet difficulties are placed in his path from every direction.
And apart from evil and autism, there is nothing good happening here.
All the while, the noise of the bulldozers continues.
Hopefully in the picture you can see something despite the distance and our fear of going too close after the last time when we only approached Hagai’s farm and immediately the security official rushed towards us roaring with the aid of a megaphone that there is a ban on entering private territory …. the wild west.
In the pictures the home of the family.
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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