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UN, EU stress need to provide secure, dignified living to southern Hebron hills RAMALLAH, Monday, February 8, 2021 (WAFA) – The United Nations and European Union today stressed the need to provide Palestinian residents and schoolchildren in the southern Hebron hills with secure and dignified living. Head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Sarah Muscroft, and UNICEF Special Representative to Palestine, Lucia Elmi, besides to a host of international diplomats made this call during a visit to Khirbet Umm Qassa of th...

Israeli army conduct military drills, damage crops in southern Hebron HEBRON,  Wednesday, February 03, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli army today conducted military drills for the third consecutive day in Palestinian farmlands in the area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, according to local sources. Fouad al-Amour, a local activist, told WAFA that the military carried out the drills using tanks and live fire, destroying crops in the area and causing psychological distress and panic among the residents, particularly the children. The drills, he added, came to preempt an Israeli court ruling on a...

Settlers graze cattle on Palestinian cultivated land south of Hebron HEBRON, Monday, February 1, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today grazed their cattle on Palestinian cultivated land to the east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to a local activist. Fuad al-'Amour, the Coordinator of the Protection and Steadfastness Committee in Masafer Yatta, told WAFA that a group of Israeli settlers allowed their cattle to graze on wheat and barely planted by Palestinian farmers in Khirbet al-Tha‘la, east of the town, in an attempt to seize the land to make room...

Israeli forces demolish mosque south of Hebron HEBRON, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces dawn Wednesday demolished a mosque in the Bedouin community of Azwadeen, east of Yatta city, south of Hebron, according to a local activist. Coordinator of the Protection and Steadfastness Committees, Fuad al-‘Amour, told WAFA that Israeli forces escorted bulldozers into Khirbet Umm Qassa in the Bedouin community of Azwadeen, in what is called the Eastern Slope, where the heavy machineries tore down the mosque, reducing it to rubble. The demolition was carried out less than two weeks...

Published date: 26 January 2021 09:15 UTC | Last update: 1 month 4 weeks ago More than three weeks after he was shot in the neck by an Israeli soldier, Harun Abu Aram is still hanging between life and death. The 23-year-old Palestinian had attempted, barefoot, to prevent soldiers from confiscating his power generator, the family’s only source of electricity, on 1 January in the area of Masafer Yatta, near the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli forces shoot Palestinian in neck as they attempt to confiscate generatorRead More » Whil...