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Arrests and nonviolent actions in South Hebron Hills

Posted on: February 27, 2012

26 February 2012 | Operation Dove

On February 25th Palestinian men and women, elders and children, together with Israeli and international activists gathered for two demonstrations organized by the South Hebron Hills Popular Committee.
The first demonstration, attended by approximately ninety people, was planned in response to twenty-nine trees being cut down during the last four months on private Palestinian property near the illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on. During the action the participants planted about thirty small olive trees on a hill near the … Continue reading


Updated on February 27, 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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South Hebron Hills: IDF demolition in Saadet Tha’lah and Ar Rakeez

Posted on: February 16, 2012
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16 February 2012 | Operation Dove

At-Tuwani – On February 15th 2012, the Israeli Army demolished five buildings in the Palestinian village of Saadet Tha’lah and destroyed a water tank and tore down 50 trees in the Palestinian village of Ar Rakeez.


At around 12 a.m. two bulldozers and three vehicles of DCO (Disctrict Coordination Office) raided in the village of Saadet Tha’lah, escorted by four jeeps of IDF (Israeli Defense Force). One house, two water tanks and two stables for the flocks were demolished. The inhabitants said they … Continue reading


Updated on February 16, 2012
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“It’s Hevron. It’s very dangerous” warn occupation forces in Al Buwayra

Posted on: February 12, 2012

by Pascaline

12 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

On Sunday 12 February, about 200 settlers, mainly youth, gathered at the bottom of Assima settlement in Al Buwayra to cultivate and steal Palestinian land with accompaniment by the Israeli military.

They were carrying Israeli flags and posters. The military opened a gate leading these illegal and typically violent settlers onto Palestinian land and marched them to Hilltop 25. They remained there for a while and then moved to the other side of Road 60 leading to the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba and planted trees.

The Israeli Occupation Forces and … Continue reading


Updated on February 17, 2012
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Bedouin village of Umm Al Kheer under demolition threat, South Hebron Hills

Posted on: January 11, 2012

10 January 2012 | Operation Dove

On January 8th, the DCO delivered stop working orders to 8 infrastructures in the Palestinian village of Umm Al Kheer.

In the morning the Israeli Civil Administration, escorted by an Israeli army jeep, entered the Palestinian village of Umm Al Kheer. After examining different buildings, the officers registered the identity of the owners of eight structures and then issued stop working orders.

Among the identified structures, there is also the fencing of the football field built on December 30th by Palestinians in cooperation with an Israeli group. At that time Israeli authorities gave a verbal permission to … Continue reading


Updated on January 11, 2012
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Dkaika: Israel continues to expel Bedouins

Posted on: November 23, 2011
Dkaika Bedouins face expulsion - Click here for more images

by Aida Gerard

23 November 2011  | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The entire Bedouin village of Dkaika encounters demolitions, and all the villagers face expulsion. Every single construction of Dkaika has a demolition order totally over 75 demolition orders including a mosque, a school, a graveyard, water cisterns, housing tents, and folds for sheep.

This Thursday, on the 24th  of November, the Israeli Supreme court will decide if it will accept the interim injunction submitted … Continue reading


Updated on November 24, 2011
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Demolition threats continue in Imnzeizil

Posted on: November 23, 2011
The demolition order for a new part of the school in Imnezeil

by Aida Gerard

21 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

On the same morning when an official from the ICA, Israeli Civil Administration, promised to “pardon” the demolition orders of the solar panels in Imneizil, a village at the southern border of the West Bank, a new demolition order was delivered to the village on 21 November.

Two representatives from ICA showed up at the school in Imneizel and handed over a demolition order that commanded the immediate cessation of restroom construction at the school.

Several constructions in Imnezeil have … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2011
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Israeli forces and settlers try to drive away Um Alfagara residents

Posted on: November 5, 2011
Destruction in South Hebron village - Click here for more images

by Aida Gerard
5  November 2011  | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
On Thursday November 3rd at dawn, 8 military jeeps with around 25 soldiers and one bulldozer arrived at Um Alfagara. The bulldozer immediately began to demolish six pylons built for bringing electrical wires from the nearby village of Attwani to Um Alfagara. The bulldozer worked a couple of hours, guarded by the Israeli Occupation Forces until the six pylons were torn down and destroyed.

Destruction in South Hebron village – Click here for more images

Um Alfagara is … Continue reading


Updated on May 19, 2013
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CPT-Palestine closes At-Tuwani project

Posted on: November 2, 2011

November 2, 2011 | Christian Peacemaker Team – Palestine

In 2004, the village of At-Tuwani and its Israeli partner, Ta’ayush, approached CPT’s Hebron team and the Italian peace group, Operation Dove, asking if they could provide accompaniment for the children of the village whom settlers regularly attacked as they walked to school.

Although CPT had made regular visits to the South Hebron Hills villages over the years, the team on the ground and the organization as a whole deemed it important to respond to the villagers’ request for a permanent presence in the village … Continue reading


Updated on November 2, 2011
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Extremist settler attacks shepherd and brutally abuses flock

Posted on: September 28, 2011

28 September 2011  | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

On the 17th of September Israeli colonists attacked a shepherd near Sha’ab el-Butom, resulting in several sheep injured and the arrest of the young shepherd.

Sha’ab el-Butom is a small Bedouin village in South Hebron Hills not even mentioned in most maps, a village that faces daily harassment from the surrounding illegal settlements and outposts composed by the most ideological settlers in the West Bank. On Saturday September 17th of September, Nahel Ahmed Mousa Aburem, a 23 year old shepherd, went as usual down the road with his sheep when one settler accompanied by a … Continue reading


Updated on September 28, 2011
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