SOUTH HEBRON HILLS: Umm al-Kher facing settler attacks, settlement expansion and a lawsuit from Karmel Umm al-Kher is a village of about 135 people from the al-Hathaleen Bedouin who fled from their original lands near the Israeli city of Arad in during the war of 1948 to the South Hebron Hills. They subsequently suffered the […]
Category: South Hebron Hills
From the Tel Rumeida CPTnet Archives Another posting to illustrate what an expansion of the Israeli settlement enterprise will mean to the residents of Tel Rumeida. Changes in the organization over the last eighteen years probably would have resulted in the title for this piece being, “Israeli soldiers fail to protect three young children from […]
At Tuwani – Between 18-20 January, four Palestinians and two Operation Dove (OD) volunteers were arrested by the Israeli police and army while Palestinian shepherds were grazing their flocks. On 18 January at 1:04 p.m., seven settlers came out from the illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on (Hill 833), and entered the Humra valley while two […]
by C.D. Fox In 1999, the Israeli military administration forcibly expelled 900 people and destroyed their homes within an area it calls Firing Zone 918. Only after residents petitioned the Israeli High Court did it grant a temporary injunction in 2000, allowing them to return. Life for Palestinian communities in the area has worsened because […]
During the most recent weekly visit to villages in the South Hebron hills, CPTers witnessed the presence of a large group of Israeli soldiers and heard an artillery training activity. Every week, CPT provides protective presence in an area, home to 12 villages, that has been declared a closed military zone for training, Firing Zone […]
[youtube=http://youtu.be/XOXvdEaKAgY]Israeli Soldiers and Border Police Destroy 200 Young Olive Trees in Palestinian Village of Susya Israeli soldiers and border police today used a backhoe to uproot 200 young olive trees in the Palestinian village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills. The demolition of the olive grove began at 8:00 am and finished at 10:45 am. […]