South Hebron Hills
Purpose of the workshop: Music activity at Hashem el-Daraj preschool with Huda
Topic of the activity: Movement and response to music.
Seventeen children were present at the preschool – less than usual because of cold stormy weather. The wall heaters have yet to be fixed to the walls. The children were excited to see us and wanted to shake our hands.
Activity: Huda read a story – “Basha’s Hat”, about the wind conspiring to blow off Basha’s hat and how she learns to cope with the wind. The children were very attentive to the story and participated in the discussion about wind and followed Huda’s lead in movements related to types of wind. The children acted out the story and all were keen to participate. They were much more comfortable in acting out the story than they were previously.
The music activity included percussion instruments, musical games, and movement games in response to music. The children were very enthusiastic and were eager to have a role in the activity.
Pictures of the activity (Judy – Gan Huda art activity December 19th, 2013: https://picasaweb.google.com/113044451662544057850?authkey=Gv1sRgCNS_j8qy0sCOGA
“Staff” meeting:
We were very pleased with today’s activity and discussed as we drank tea and ate dates and cookies. Huda will continue the activity during the week: making of hats from newspapers which we brought with us. Huda and Amna proudly pointed to the large piece of construction with pictures of olive trees to which the children added leaves. To date, there is no way to hang up the large pictures. If they are taped to the wall, they fall down. We plan to have poster boards put up which should solve the problem.
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
Smadar BeckerApr-10-2026New Israeli flags placed for miles on Highway 317 to prove who is sovereign
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