Tag: Umm al Kher-al Faqir
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Bedouin village of Umm Al Kheer under demolition threat, South Hebron Hills
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…
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Nonviolent action by Palestinians and internationals stops settler road construction in Um al Kheir
Christian Peacemaker Team 26 April 2009 Palestinians from the South Hebron Hills village of Um al Kheir today changed the route of a road being constructed by settlers from the illegal settlement of Karmel. The villagers, acting with internationals, nonviolently blocked the road-building equipment as it prepared the roadbed on land which belongs to Palestinians…
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Construction of Israeli-only road threatens homes of Umm al Kher-al Faqir residents
“My family bought this land in 1948 after being expelled from our old home. It was just us, the birds, and the trees here at that time. But in 1967 the Israelis started to attack us, and ten years later they built a military outpost. Five years after that the settlers started buiding their homes…