The IDF and the settlers have been trying to evict the residents of the SouthHebron Hills region from their land for years.

One method is by preventing access to their cisterns or any water pumping.

On Saturday, 7th August, 2010, Palestinians from Sussya and Bir el-‘Id came to ‘Atariyya to pump water from their cisterns. They were accompanied by Israeli human rights activists.

Settlers who arrived from the outpost Mitzpe Yair and the settlement Sussya, started threatening them and tried to empty the water from a tanker that was filled.

Soldiers who were on hand did not try to stop the attack. Instead, they issued a closed military zone order and evicted the Palestinians and their Israeli accompaniers.

Questions & queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il