On 3th September 2012 at around 10.30 am the Dco (Distric Coordination Office, the section of the Israli Army that work for the civil administration in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) and the Israeli Army  delivered in Tuba village one demolition order for the wind turbine and a stop working order for an house-tent and a house, in which in total are living ten people.

The demolition order for the wind turbine is the conseqence of a stop working order delivered on 18th June 2012 (Press Release: http://snipurl.com/24w6g3b). The wind turbine was donated in 2010 by “Comet-Me”, an Israeli NGO that supports the economic and social empowerment of local communities through material support and environmental sustainability. If it will be demolished, around 70 people would remain without electricity . According to the order, the owners have three day time in order to appeal.

Pictures: http://snipurl.com/24w6gkr

Ha’aretz / 28 agosto 2012 / Amira Hass

Ismail Adara, from the village of Bir al Eid, was attacked with a razor and sticks by two men.

Two masked men attacked and wounded Ismail Adara, a 67-year-old Palestinian shepherd on Monday, in the cave village of Bir al Eid in the South Hebron hills, as he was grazing his flock near the village. He was rushed to hospital in Hebron with wounds in the neck and fingers, and with possible head fractures.

Adara was grazing his flock on Monday afternoon next to the village, a few hundred meters from the residential buildings of the unauthorized settlement outpost of Mizpeh Yair when he was attacked by two masked men. Two of his young children, a boy and a girl, were near the scene of the attack. Immediately afterwards, he managed to use his cell phone to call Kamer Mashraqi Assad, a lawyer with the organization Rabbis for Human Rights, who notified the IDF and the police.

According to Adara, they arrived on the scene some 45 minutes after the attack. Adara told the lawyer that shortly before 5.30 P.M. he was saw two Israelis whose full names he knows driving a car and dropping off two masked men from the vehicle. The two attacked him with a razor and beat him on the head with sticks.

Adara had in his possession a thick rubber hose, which he uses while herding his flock, and he claims he protected himself with the hose, and might have managed to hit one of the two men who attacked him in the face.

Adara was taken by military ambulance, and remembers that he lost consciousness for a while. Near the Sussiya settlement, he was transferred to a Red Crescent ambulance. As far as is Mashraqi Assad knows, police asked Adara’s two young children about him, but have still not been in direct contact with the shepherd himself.

Due to repeated harassments by Israelis who live in the area, residents of Bir al Eid gradually left the village in the early 2000s, with the last resident leaving in 2003. Traffic restrictions imposed by the army and building prohibitions imposed by the Civil Administration made life there even more difficult. Residents complained to police of harassment which included the killing of their sheep, the burning of fields and crops, damage to their property, blocking access to the village, setting dogs on them, and dumping sheep carcasses into cisterns.

In a visit to the abandoned village in autumn 2007, Haaretz photographer Alex Levac, a Haaretz reporters and UN staff were attacked by two Israelis from the outpost. After a legal battle led by Rabbis for Human Rights, the residents returned to the village in 2009. Adara, who is married to four women, was one of the residents who was most anxious to return to his home, despite fears of recurring attacks. In the past three years, the residents have again complained of harassment, such as repeated damage to pipes that carry water from the well, sheep stealing, property damage and trespassing.

Fonte: Ha’aretz

As European diplomats and Israeli courts deliberate the future of Palestinians in Area C, the Palestinian Authority is taking action it hopes will secure that future.

By Amira Hass | Aug.13, 2012 | 2:26 AM | 1

PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the threatened village of Mufaqara. The EU is referring more and more to the ‘forced transfer’ of Palestinians from Area C. Photo by Amira Hass

“How can you watch this and keep on using diplomatic language?” I asked, not expecting an answer from the three European Union diplomats in whose car I rode through the southern Hebron hills last Wednesday. By “this” I meant the sickening disparity between the lush green vegetation and the abundance of new homes in the Jewish settlements and the avalanche of demolition orders issued against tents and jury-rigged shanties where Palestinians live on their own land and 30 liters of water per person (because of Israel’s refusal to connect them to the water grid ).

This question broke the silence in the car as we left the cave village of Jinba, two or three times as old as the State of Israel, currently facing a demolition threat. To my surprise, one of the three answered: “It’s very hard.”

At-Tuwani, 8 agosto 2012

Il giorno 7 agosto 2012 alle ore 10:00 del mattino un gruppo di 70 soldati dell’ Israeli Defence Force in tenuta da combattimento, ha fatto irruzione nel villaggio palestinese di Jinba, con il supporto logistico di 2 elicotteri militari, che sono atterrati su due colline poco distanti e 6 automezzi. Il battaglione è entrato a Jinba e per un’ ora e mezza ha minacciato i locali, danneggiato le loro abitazioni perquisendo con irruenza gli interni e lasciato le strutture in grande disordine.

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L’esercito israeliano fa irruzione nel villaggio palestinese di Jimba, nelle colline a sud di Hebron

At-Tuwani, 8 agosto 2012

Israel’s high court says state has responsibility to find alternative for the 27 families living in the West Bank village of Zanuta in the southern Hebron Hills.

By Chaim Levinson | Jul.30, 2012 | 11:51 AM | 2

Residents of Zanuta are in danger of losing their homes to Israeli policies. Photo by Jamila Biso, ACRI

Israel’s High Court ruled on Monday that the state has 30 days to provide a solution for residents of the West Bank village of Zanuta, which is scheduled for demolition because it was built on an archeological site. 

The village in the southern Hebron Hills is the home of 27 families. In 2007, the residents filed a joint petition to the High Court of Justice with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel requesting that the Civil Administration complete a detailed construction plan for them, and received an interim order from the court.

In a hearing that took place on Monday, the residents’ legal representative Nira Shalev said, “The residents have been in this place since before 1967, and it is the duty of the army to regularize construction in this location.”

A state legal representative, Yitzhak Bar, said that there is no possibility of regularizing buildings in the village, because it is built on an archeological site. Judge Hanan Meltzer said that the state has a responsibility to find an alternative solution. He said it was not as simple as demolishing, “but we don’t know where they will go.”

“The role of a military governor is to find a solution.” he said.

Judge Edna Arbel added, “It is advisable to think in advance where they will go, not afterwards.”

The state representative responded saying that it was not the responsibility of the military authority to find a solution. At the end of the hearing, the judges ordered the state to announce a solution within 30 days, and to announce whether or not they were planning to regularize building on the site.

HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces have closed several roads in the south Hebron hills, after Israel ordered the demolition of eight villages in the area to use the land for military training, local official said.
Israeli troops closed roads leading to Khirbet al-Majaz, Khirbet al-Tabban, Khirbet al-Fakheit, Halaweh, Mirkez, Jinba and Kharoubeh, a spokesman for Yatta municipality Abed Abu Fannar told Ma’an.

Abu Fannar said Israeli military bulldozers were closing the entrances to all the villages. He added that he was detained by Israeli soldiers while inspecting the area and warned not to return.

Israeli troops have informed residents of the villages that the region is a closed military zone, Abu Fannar said, and military vehicles are deployed throughout the area.

Israel’s High Court of Justice heard Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s plans to demolish the villages on Sunday, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

Residents of the south Hebron villages will be allowed to access their land for farming on weekends and Jewish holidays, and during two one-month periods each year, when the Israeli army is not training in the area, Haaretz reported.

Israel regards the 1,500 residents of the villages as squatters, although the villages predate the establishment of the state of Israel by over 100 years, Haaretz said.

Previous evacuation orders issued against the villages were frozen by Israel’s High Court of Justice.

Link:  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=507622

At around 4:45 pm Operation Dove volunteers were called by a palestinian shepherd from Maghayir Al Abeed village who ask to them to look at one child that was coming to Al-Karmil from Maghayir Al Abeed. When Operation Dove volunteers arrived in Humra valley they found 5 masked settlers that started to throw rocks against them, also with slingshot. One palestinian told to the internationals that the settlers chased the child before their arrival. After, the settlers attacked the volunteers and stopped just when some palestinians came from At-Tuwani. The settlers returned inside Havat Ma’on woods. One relative of the chased child told to Operation Dove members that the victim went to hospital for anxiety disturb connected to the attack.

Pictures of the incident:  http://snipurl.com/24h2fa4

Settlers from Havat Ma’on attacked three palestinian minors nearby the palestinian village of Tuba, South Hebron Hills

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July 26th, 2012

At-Tuwani- South Hebron Hills

On the 24^th of July, at 6 pm, three Palestinian shepherds, one of whom is 15 years old, the other two are 9 and 13 years old, were attacked by 4 adult settlers coming from Havat Ma’on outpost.

According to the witnesses, the shepherds were grazing close to the Palestinian village of Tuba, when the 4 settlers approched them threateningly, throwing stones and running after them, forcing them to leave.