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Idhna: Family faces a third home demolition by Israel

Posted on: May 8, 2012
Idhna: Family faces a third home demolition by Israel

by Sunny

8 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank


On Monday, May 7 in the southern West Bank village of Idhna, Mohamed Temezi was busy working on his caravan home. Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrived unexpectedly and subjected him and his wife Faizah Temezi to a 3 hour ordeal in which they were detained, and beaten. Their new home was threatened with demolition.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) provided the caravan for the Temezi family. They … Continue reading


Updated on May 16, 2012
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Idhna: A family without windows

Posted on: March 12, 2012
Without windows in Idna - Click here for more photos

by Peige

12 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

After three years of marriage Amani and Hussein Batran wanted a house of their own, somewhere to raise their two children, 4 year old Khalil and 3 year old Layali.   They took out two loans from the bank and construction began. Now, three years later, the house is still unfinished and no new work has been done for over a year. One year ago, shortly after the Batran family moved into their nearly finished house, they received an order from the Israeli military forbidding further construction, followed seven months later by … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Idhna: Tent replaces home as local resists illegal Israeli land confiscations

Posted on: February 16, 2012
Idhna: Tent replaces home as local resists illegal Israeli land confiscations

by Sylvia
16 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
Idhna has suffered considerably since the Israeli occupation, particularly due to the construction of the segregation wall and some 3,000  dunums of land which has been stolen since the second Intifada. Idhna is surrounded by the Israeli settlements of Adora and Telem to the northeast, a bypass road that runs through the northern parts of the town, and the segregation wall that borders Idhna to the north and the west.
According to municipal … Continue reading


Updated on February 16, 2012
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Idna family charged by Israeli military for “demolition services”

Posted on: December 10, 2011
Saving just to be demolished - Click here for more images

10 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
Over two weeks have passed since the El Gelwe family’s home was demolished. They remain homeless and are currently living in a tent which was provided by Palestinian neighbors in the village of Idna, of the Hebron Governorate. The family’s tent is erected just meters away from the pile of concrete that was once their home.  It undoubtedly represented so much for this family.


The father, Jamel was visually broken as he stated, “Someone saves money their whole life and they come … Continue reading


Updated on December 11, 2011
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Israeli military invasions intensify in southern West Bank

Posted on: February 27, 2009
Israeli military invasions intensify in southern West Bank

February 27th, 2009.

In the early hours on February 24th, Israeli Forces invaded the villages of Sa’ir and Idhna, in the Hebron district of the southern West Bank, and arrested four men. More than ten jeeps entered Idhna at approximately 12:30am. Around 40 soldiers surrounded the house of Hatem Mahmoud Al-Kharuf, and ordered all the family members outside. They then proceeded to search the house, turning everything upside down and smashing a bedroom wardrobe. A shared Taxi (service) owned by Hatem’s brother that was parked outside was also ransacked, with the soldiers tearing off large pieces of the interior and inexplicably … Continue reading


Updated on March 9, 2009
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