Tag: South Hebron Hills
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CPT: Armed man kills two animals near Maghayir Al-Abeed village; Escapes to Havat Ma’on settlement
24 January 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Team In the early afternoon of 23 January 2011, an armed man killed two animals near the South Hebron Hills village of Maghayir Al-Abeed. Two teenage shepherds reported that they were watering their family’s flock at a well just above their village when a man running…
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Israeli settlers lay in front of tractors; attempt to prohibit Palestinian agricultural work
23 January 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Teams At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills, West Bank – On Saturday, 22nd of January, Palestinian farmers successfully plowed fields in Khoruba valley, despite heavy harassment by settlers from the nearby settlement of Ma’on. In the early morning, about twenty farmers from At-Tuwani started sowing seed and plowing…
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Thirteen homes and three school buildings destroyed by Israeli forces
12 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement More than 13 homes and three school buildings were bulldozed this morning by occupation forces in the small Bedouin village of Dkaika near Yatta south of Hebron. One eye witness – an English teacher at the school – said “the Israeli army arrived at the village at around…
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Israeli military demolishes water wells and cisterns in the South Hebron Hills
14 December 2010 | Christian Peacemaker Teams The Israeli military demolished three water cisterns and two wells in the Khashem Ad Daraj – Hathaleen region on Tuesday, December 14th . The military gave no reason for the destruction of the wells and cisterns. The demolitions follow a pattern of destruction of Palestinian property by the…
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Israeli bulldozers: demolishing homes, ruining livelihoods
26 November 2010 | Stella, International Solidarity Movement In the last few days, with a wave of demolitions, Israeli bulldozers have spread destruction and despair in the villages across the West Bank: in Qarawat Bani Hassan near Salfeet, in al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, in Hizma, near Jerusalem, in Khirbet Yarza, east of Tubas, and…