South Hebron Hills
We went to hear what was happening in A-Tuwani after the Villager Group reported that the villagers had been severely injured by the settlers of Havat (Farm) Maon . This included the use of sticks, stones, stones and dogs, and resulted in the injury of two people.
We could not meet Jum’a but Intisar came to meet us and told us about the assault of the Ma’on Farm (an illegal outpost) when the villagers were picking olives at the farm. In addition, she says that at night they come down to the village. They got as far as the greenhouses and the mosque because they wanted to take the speakers away, but the people of Tuwani had already removed the speakers.
Ibtisam gives us a flyer that the village has published concerning a demonstration they will hold on Shabbat.
The demonstration will takes place on the 11/11/17 at the top of the hill in the village, in response to what has happened.
We went to Huda’s kindergarten in Hashem al-Daraj. (On the way are many large and beautiful houses being built, those of those who can afford it, and later on – extremely different conditions, poor houses and camels and women who come with a donkey to fill the water with containers from a hose attached to the faucet of the garden.
The children in the kindergarten are sweet and happy to see us. So too are Huda and Khula. Huda speaks a little Hebrew that she must have learned from Mira’s visits. We handed her packages of clothes and some toys.
This village sits in the verge of the Judean Desert and the landscape is amazing. The vast space of the desert spaces fill the eye, sheep, goats, camels, shepherds
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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