ICAHD UK member, Debby, has sent us this report following her three months in the South Hebron Hills. She discovered that Israel’s military occupation is pervasive and that whilst she expected to see house demolitions, she was shocked to see formal demolition orders for trees and water cisterns and that installing water butts to capture… Read more »
Personal Experiences
The story of Harun Abu Aram
We are regularly asked to provide more stories about the lives of Palestinians who have experienced their homes being demolished due to Israel’s discriminatory housing laws which make it nearly impossible for Palestinians to obtain planning permission for the construction of homes and structures vital for living compared to the way that the Israeli government… Read more »
Atta Jaber’s resilience is tested yet again
For over thirty years, their entire married life, Atta and Rudina Jaber and their children have known nothing but oppression and cruelty from Israeli authorities and the extreme religious Jewish settlers from nearby Kiryat Arba in Hebron who covet their land. The valley in which Atta and his neighbours live, though arid, produces much of… Read more »
Settlers again target the Atta Jaber family
Extreme religious settlers from Kiryat Arba in Hebron have again been targeting the Atta Jaber family as they intend to make life so difficult for them that they leave their beloved home. On the evening of 13th December settlers arrived outside the front door and called for the family to leave because their home is… Read more »
Recording of Challenges Faced by Palestinian Farmers in the Hebron District (6th January)
ICAHD UK Webinar – Wednesday, 6th January, 5-6.15pm (UK time) Atta Jaber and Hisham Sharabati spoke about the extraordinary challenges face by Palestinian farmers who live in the Hebron district where land confiscation and destruction of structures essential for living are a common occurrence. In a year when the deadly coronavirus has swept through… Read more »
Erella, an Israeli from the Villages Group: Cooperation in Israel-Palestine, recounts witnessing a day of demolitions in the South Hebron Hills that took place on 25th November 2020
For sixteen years I have walked at Nasser’s side. He was 20-years old when we first met. His youthful dream was to become a vet. Luckily that didn’t work out, otherwise – how could he have grown to become the one to document as a researcher of B’Tselem of the everyday injustices incurred in his… Read more »
Israeli Bulldozers Target Atta Jaber Family Yet Again
Support Atta and tell his story You can support Atta, Rudina and their family by donating here Demolition on 25 September 2020 In our September Actions Bulletin, we paid tribute to Atta Jaber, from the West Bank, who has known nothing but oppression and cruelty from the Israeli authorities as well as from extreme… Read more »
Tribute to Atta Jaber’s Resilience
On 6th September, ICAHD’s Jeff Halper visited Atta Jaber on his farm in the southern West Bank. It was Atta’s birthday but instead of cake, Jeff was served something much better – maklouba. Atta showed Jeff around the half acre narrow strip of farmland that runs along the main highway that he is allowed to… Read more »
Demolitions and Displacement – Personal Stories
On Wednesday, 21 st February 2018, the bulldozers of Israel’s “Civil” Administration (which it calls its military government over 7 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza) destroyed the farm of the Jaber family in the Baka Valley, near Hebron. Normally this would not be a notable event. Every day dozens of actions are… Read more »
Awdah Hathaleen
Awdah Hathaleen is 24 years old and a collective member from Um al-Khair. He is an English teacher in his village, having studied English teaching methods at Hebron University. Awdah and his mother currently live in a house with a pending demolition order. Already, their house has been demolished twice before. Awdah has been a… Read more »