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.

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Demolizioni e resistenza popolare nonviolenta nelle colline a sud di Hebron

L’esercito israeliano demolisce nei villaggi palestinesi di Susiya e Khirbet Zanuta, mentre il Comitato di Resistenza Popolare organizza una manifestazione nonviolenta

29 agosto 2012

At-Tuwani – La mattina del 28 agosto 2012 l’esercito israeliano demoliva gran parte del villaggio palestinese di Khirbet Zanuta e tre tende nel villaggio palestinese di Susiya. A pochi kilometri di distanza una manifestazione pacifica organizzata dal Comitato di Resistenza Popolare delle colline a sud di Hebron protestava contro le politiche israeliane di demolizione e ricordava Rachel Corrie, in occasione della sentenza sulla sua uccisione nel marzo 2003.

At-Tuwani, 13th August 2012

On August 13th activists from Israeli group Ta’ayush referred that “Israeli Army delivered two demolition orders for block structures with concrete floor” in the palestinian village of Jinba.

Delivery of demolition orders takes place a few days after the army raided the same village on August 7th.

At-Tuwani, 13 agosto 2012

Il giorno 13 agosto abbiamo avuto notizia, dagli attivisti dell’associazione israeliana Ta’ayush, che “stamane l’esercito israeliano ha consegnato due ordini di demolizione per strutture a mattoni con pavimentazione” presso il villaggio palestinese di Jinba.

La consegna degli ordini di demolizione avviene pochi giorni dopo l’irruzione dell’esercito nello stesso villaggio il 7 agosto scorso.

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.

Ha’aretz 23 July 2012

Amira Hass

Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the demolition of eight Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills because the territory is needed for Israel Defense Forces training exercises, the state told the High Court of Justice on Sunday.

The residents of the targeted villages will be moved to the town of Yatta and its environs; the state claims, based on information it obtained from local informers, that most of these people have permanent homes in that area.

The state will allow the residents to work their lands and graze their flocks there when the IDF is not training — on weekends and Jewish holidays – and during two other periods of one month each during the year. Barak agreed to leave four villages that are in the northernmost part of the area, even though this would reduce the dimensions of training area and prevent the use of live fire.

The villages slated for demolition are the larger villages in the region: Majaz, Tabban, Sfai, Fakheit, Halaweh, Mirkez, Jinba, and Kharuba, which have a total of 1,500 residents. The villages to be spared are Tuba, Mufaqara, Sarura and Megheir al-Abeid, which have a total of 300 residents.

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A tiny village of Palestinian families in the southern West Bank has had an unwelcome visitor in recent months.

“He comes with small weapons and his camera, sometimes with armed forces, sometimes with settlers,” Susiya resident Nasser Nawaja says.

The armed visitor is Ovad Arad, the Judea and Samaria Director of Regavim, an Israeli non-governmental organization.

Arad’s job is to roam the West Bank photographing Palestinian buildings for the group’s legal petitions, which demand the Israeli government expedite their demolitions.

Susiya, a hamlet of 350 people, including 120 children, is now at immediate risk of forced displacement as a result of Regavim’s petition, the United Nations humanitarian affairs office says.

15 febbraio 2012

Giornata molto intensa; tocco con mano ingiustizia, passione, perdita. Perseveranza.

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L’esercito israeliano demolisce nei villaggi palestinesi di Saadet Tha’lah e Ar Rakeez, nelle colline a sud di Hebron

 16 Febbraio 2012

At-Tuwani – Il 15 febbraio 2012 l’esercito israeliano ha demolito cinque strutture nel villaggio palestinese di Saadet Tha’lah e distrutto una cisterna d’acqua e abbattuto cinquanta alberi nel villaggio palestinese di Ar Rakeez, nelle colline a sud di Hebron.

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Nuove demolizioni nel villaggio beduino di Umm Al Kheer

Dopo le demolizioni l’IDF ha sequestrato un trattore nel villaggio palestinese di Khallet el Mayya

25 gennaio 2012

At-Tuwani – La mattina del 25 gennaio l’esercito israeliano ha prima demolito due abitazioni nel villaggio beduino di Umm Al Kheer e successivamente ha sequestrato un trattore nel villaggio di Khallet el Mayya.

Attorno alle ore 9:00 due bulldozer, scortati da alcune jeep militari e dal Dco (District Coordinating Office) dell’esercito israeliano, hanno fatto irruzione nel villaggio di Umm Al Kheer. Le due abitazioni che sono state demolite non avevano ricevuto alcun avviso di demolizione, sebbene ad oggi pendano sul villaggio 20 ordini di demolizione. La prima struttura apparteneva ad una coppia di anziani, mentre la seconda ad una donna con 9 figli. Durante le operazioni i palestinesi, che hanno cercato di ostacolare le attività interponendosi fra le abitazioni e i bulldozer, sono stati spintonati dai soldati. L’anziano proprietario di una delle abitazioni ha avuto un malore dopo esser stato strattonato dai militari. Intanto nel vicino insediamento israeliano di Karmel 2 ruspe lavoravano alla costruzione di nuove unità abitative.