Settlers demolish an agricultural service room and three tents in “Khallet Al-Adra”, east of Yatta, Hebron Governorate

June 12, 2022

• Violation: demolition of an agricultural service room and 3 tents.
• Violation date: 12/06/2022.
• Location: khallet Al-Adra – Yatta , Hebron Governorate.
• The perpetrator: the settlers of “Ma’on” settlement.
• Victims: Members of the Al-Shawaheen family.

The violation details:

Speaking to LRC’s field researcher Mr. Muhammad Ali Al-Shawaheen stated that at the early hours of Sunday, 12/6/2022, settlers residing in the colony of “Ma’on” demolished an agricultural service room and three tents which belong to his clan in the area of “Khallet  Al-Adra” southeast of Yatta.

Photos 1-4: The rubble of the demolished agricultural service
service rooms and tents in Khallet Al-Adra

Mr. Al-Shawaheen, 40 years old, indicated that about a month ago, his clan built 3 tents and an agricultural service room in their agricultural lands to be used as resting places and stores for their agricultural tools. However, a while ago, the settlers seized an area estimated at tens of dunums in close proximity of his clan’s land, and planted it with grape seedlings, and built road around it. He went on to say that the “Carmiel” settlement is about 150-200 away from the place where they built their tents and the agricultural service room, and that the settlers were watching them while building these tents and room, using drones to follow up the progress of work and monitor what they were doing.

He pointed out that the citizens left the site at night, and returned to it in the morning and found all their facilities had been demolished, noting that the colonists were the ones who demolished them.

Al-Shawaheen confirmed that the citizens neither received any work-stop notices nor demolition orders from the occupation authorities and the settlers carried out the demolitions by themselves under the cover of darkness.

Photos 5+6: View of the room and some tents before the demolition

Demolition by the owners’ name, No. family members, children, type of structure and area:

It should be noted that the settlers carried out another demolition operation near this site, when they demolished an agricultural service room for the citizen Mahmoud Idais Al-Sawy, on May 31, 2022. For more information, click here.

It should be noted, also, that the “khallet Al-Adra” area is considered one of the primary targets of the settlers after they had  planted it with grapes, for more information, click here.