Wadi Radim - In Abu Safi’s life, the entire history of life in the area unfolds
On the way to Wadi Radim, we stopped in Zanuta at the Tahadi (Challenge No. 7) school, one of the schools that were established throughout the West Bank by the residents of the places to allow the children of the settlement to study in their place of residence and not to walk miles and cross dangerous roads as dictated by the occupation policy. Some are destroyed time and time again and the challenge is to build and teach again and again.
And they don’t sing on Passover: “When they torture him, he will multiply, and he will break out.” It turns out to be a universal law and the Jewish genius doesn’t understand it yet.
At the school, people who come every morning from Al Fawwar at the Dura-Al Fawwar intersection, say that every morning and every evening they block and check cars. And another says that this morning soldiers shot and wounded a 15-year-old boy who was walking there at the intersection. He was treated but also taken into custody.
In Wadi Radim Abu Safi returned yesterday from a week in hospital where they did a lot of tests preceding heart surgery. They will implant a valve. He says that in the last two weeks it has been quiet aboutwith the two settlers Kaplan and Yinon. He thinks it’s because the police were convinced that he couldn’t come to Hebron police to file a complaint due to his health condition and they came. He heard them talking to Israel Kaplan. They haven’t bothered hm since.
And yet today, when his 15-year-old daughter returned with the herd, she said that Yinon asked her questions in Hebrew that she did not understand, but she understood the word ahbalah (stupid) very well.
It is possible that Alex Libac and Gideon Levy will come to visit him.
In the story of his life, the entire history of life in the area unfolds.
Dura Al-Fawwar Junction
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Junction on Route 60: west - the town of El Dura, east - the Al Fawwar refugee camp. There is a manned pillbox at the junction. From time to time the army sets up flying checkpoints at the entrance to El Fawwar and Al Dura. Al-Fawwar is a large refugee camp (7,000 inhabitants in 2007) established in 1949 to accommodate Palestinian refugees from Be'er Sheva and Beit Jubrin and environs. There are many incidents of stone-throwing. In the vicinity of the pillbox there are excellent agricultural areas, Farmers set up stalls adjacent to the plots close to the road. In recent months the civil administration has set up dirt embankments thereby blocking access to the stalls, and making it impossible for the farmers to sell their vegetables. Updated April 2021, Michal T.
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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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