Israel warns the Masafer Yatta communities of the imminent implementation of a massive eviction process
Deportation threatens 1,200 Palestinians on the borders of the West Bank and Israel
Residents of Masafer Yatta are facing a final decision to displace them.
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Ma'on settlement besieges Yatta and threatens to seize its land.
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The struggle of Younis, head of the Traveler Council, in the face of the occupation's aggression.
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Muhammad al-Hroub: “The occupation established nine settlements on the lands of the traveler’s villages and in their surroundings, the most prominent of which are (Al-Karmel), (Susiya), (Umm Al-Aris), (Ma’on) and (Karmail).
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To the far south of the city of Hebron in the south of the West Bank, the so-called Green Line borders separating the cities of the occupied West Bank since the setback of 1967, and the lands of the Palestinian interior occupied by Israel since the Nakba of 1948, and in that area there has been the last inhabited spot for decades, which is the village Musafir Yatta, in which 1,200 Palestinians live on an area of 35,000 dunums.
Today, they are on the verge of forcible deportation, waiting for them, after the issuance of a final Israeli decision, warning them to vacate their land, as a prelude to their expulsion from it, as the Israeli army informed the residents of “Masafer Yatta” in the first week of the new year, of its intention to demolish the entire homes of their threatened community. Always by eviction, without specifying a time for that arbitrary procedure.
In its issue issued on Wednesday, January 11, the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz published news that senior officers headed by the Commander of the Central District, General Yehuda Fuchs, began preparing to evacuate hundreds of Palestinian residents from Masafer Yatta in the southern Hebron Hills, in favor of conducting training exercises. the Israeli army in the area.
And “Haaretz” added, “According to the statements of senior officials in the security apparatus and political parties, the preparation of the plan began about two months ago, and it was carried out at the initiative of the military level without any prior discussion with the political level, which is responsible for making decisions in this regard, as the authorities said.” Al-Rafiah that the plan was presented to the government for the first time only last week, after the replacement of the ruling.
The deportation story
The final Israeli deportation decision has a different story than the Israeli demolition and confiscation decisions against the lands of Palestinian cities, which the head of the local council of “Musafer Yatta” tells, Nidal Younis, and says that “the residents of Al-Musafir, who live in tent and tin houses, in addition to brick rooms, have applied At a later time, a request to the Israeli Civil Administration to allow them to plow their land.” And the Israeli response stated, “There is no need to plow, because in the coming days, a large-scale evacuation operation will be implemented in the area.”
Yunus told "Emirates Today", in an exclusive interview, that "the evacuation of (Musafer Yatta) from its original Palestinian population is among the priorities of Israel's plans to control the village south of Al-Aqsa Hebron, whose borders border the occupied West Bank, as the decision aims to remove eight villages from the Al-Mosafer communities." fully residential.
And he adds, "On the fourth of last May, the Israeli Supreme Court claimed that at the time of the announcement, there were no people living permanently in the area, and that there were no legal obstacles to the implementation of the plans to expel the Palestinian residents of (Masafer Yatta), to conduct military training for the Israeli occupation army." .
approaching demolition
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights "B'Tselem" described the recent Israeli decisions against the Masafer Yatta communities and their residents as a war crime with an urgent procedure, as it said in its periodic reports, "The announcement of the intention to actually expel the residents came after years in which the state has persevered in a variety of ways." To make their lives unbearable, in the hope that they would leave themselves, as if of their own free will.'
B'Tselem adds that, as part of these efforts, the state prevented them from connecting to infrastructure networks such as water and electricity, prevented them from building homes and public buildings, restricted their movement, and allowed settlers and soldiers to threaten them physically, and threaten their property on a daily basis.
In conjunction with the occupation plan to displace the residents of Masafer Yatta, the occupation forces issued demolition orders on the eighth of January, targeting the homes of Bedouin communities in the far south of Hebron.
The head of the local council, Masafer Yatta, says that the residential community of Al-Jawaya in Al-Musafer was raided by the Israeli army forces, which handed the Palestinian residents military orders, which stipulate the demolition of five homes housing dozens of citizens, which belong to the families of Al-Nawaja'. And “Al-Shawaheen” and “Shriteh”, with an area of 150 square meters.
These demolition decisions, which began creeping on the land of “Masafer Yatta”, heading towards the Palestinian properties, also targeted the basics of the daily life of the residents. To the “Al-Shawahin” and “Al-Nawaja” families, according to Younes.
settlement encirclement
Masafer Yatta and its population have drained large areas of its land over the past years, which have been devoured by the settlements perched on its lands, in addition to the Israeli army training camps, which encircle the last inhabited area in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian researcher at the Abdullah Al-Hourani Center for Studies and Documentation. Muhammed Al-Hroub.
Al-Hroub indicates that the occupation established nine settlements on the lands of the traveler’s villages and in their surroundings, the most prominent of which are “Al-Karmel”, “Susiya”, “Umm Al-Aris”, “Ma’on” and “Karmail”.
Within these settlements, daily attacks are launched against the homes of the Masafer Yatta communities, their agricultural dunums, and their livestock, which the settlers carry out as part of plans to harass the Palestinian population, to force them to leave their lands.
Among the settlement attacks against the Palestinian communities of Masafer Yatta, according to al-Hroub's testimony, are the daily pursuit against Palestinian shepherds and farmers, the storming of their agricultural lands, and the tampering with their various crops.
• The evacuation of (Masafer Yatta) from its original Palestinian residents, among the priorities of Israel's plans to control the village south of Hebron Al-Aqsa, which borders the West Bank, as the decision aims to completely remove eight villages from Al-Mosafer residential communities.
• On the 4th of last May, the Israeli Supreme Court claimed that at the time of the announcement, there were no permanent residents in the area, and that there were no legal obstacles to the implementation of the plans to expel the Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta, to conduct military training for the Israeli occupation army.
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