August 5th, 2010 // At-Tuwani – South Hebron Hills

On the morning of Wednesday, 4thAugust 2010, Palestinians from At-Tuwani found that the fence built between the village and the wood bounding Havat Ma’on outpost had been partially destroyed during the night. The wire netting, funded by ECHO (European Commission for Humanitarian Aid), UAWC (Union of Agricoltural Work Committee) and Save the Children UK, was erected on last March with the aim of protecting the crop by defining the borders of the agricoltural land belonging to Palestinians and in response to the ongoing and rapid expansion of the nearby Ma’on settlement and Havat Ma’on outpost and, consequently, with the effect to protect the village from Israeli settlers raids (such as the events of the 26thJanuary, see press release at: snipurl.com/w5a99, 12th June, see press release at: snipurl.com/xluyo). [...]

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: June 30, 2010 The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is widely acknowledged to be unsustainable and costly to the country’s image. But one more blunt truth must be acknowledged: the occupation is morally repugnant. On one side of a barbed-wire fence here in the southern Hebron hills is the [...]

June 22nd, 2010



At-Tuwani – Ten days after the attack launched by masked settlers from Havat Ma’on illegal outpost to the village of At-Tuwani, settlers keep on threatening Palestinians. Since the attack happened, every night groups of settlers have been seen walking along the road just outside the outpost. At the same time, the Israeli police and army patrolled the road to control settlers’ activity.
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“WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING IS ALL WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE … EXPEL THE ARABS. KICK THEM OUT!”
Yehoshafat Tor, a settler, Mt. Hebron

VIEW HERE: Eye-opening video from our investigation into Israel’s small but dangerous extremist settlers movement. Their long-term agenda is a war against the secular Israeli state itself.

Their vision: Restore the Kingdom of Israel, rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. And more Jewish settlements in the West Bank — plus the expulsion of all Arabs from Jewish land — are at the heart of their strategy.

June 21st, 2010 At-Tuwani – With reference to the press release of 12 June 2010 (link: snipurl.com/xluyo), we send an update about the events following the attack of masked settlers from Havat Ma’on against Palestinian villagers of At-Tuwani. Rugaya, the nineteen years old woman, four months pregnant, who was hospitalized after she fell on the [...]

[Note: According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Hague Regulations, the International Court of Justice, and several United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements and outposts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Most settlement outposts, including Havat Ma'on (Hill 833), are considered illegal also under Israeli law.] 12th June 2010 At-Tuwani – On the morning [...]