South Hebron Hills
We met Rania who lives in a small village between Negohot A and Negohot B. She tells us about a settler who lives nearby on a farm and roams freely with his sheep and dogs near their houses and harasses them. She called the police who were not interested in intervening and helping.
In addition, the road to Negohot has been widened and the new area is fenced off in Negohot A, and the work continues throughout the day and at night.
We continued driving to Khursa‘s pillbox. We met Tawfiq from the hardware store and he is angry that he has to arrange a permit from the Hebron DCO when there is an event like a wedding or funeral, at the Diwan, which is the gathering place. It is next to the checkpoint and the pillbox. This makes it very difficult for the Palestinians as all gatherings and participation takes place under the supervision of the army.
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
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