Violation: Confiscation of 3 tractors.
Date: August 6, 2012.
Victims: 3 Bedouin families (22 members including 10 children).
Details:
On August 6, 2012, Israeli troops broke into the Ka’abna dwellings nearby Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley. The Israelis confiscated 3 tractors from the area.
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Picture 1-3: Bardala
The Israelis claimed that the tractors were parked in a closed military zone. The Israeli confiscation comes concurrently with the demolition of three cisterns in abu Daif and the confiscation of water tankers in the Mid Jordan Valley area. Table 1: confiscated tractors:
Victim | Family members | Children | remarks |
Dahesh al Ka’abna | 9 | 5 | A Massey Ferguson tractor |
Khalil al Ka’abna | 5 | 2 | A Ford tractor |
Mahmoud al Ka’abna | 8 | 3 | A Massey Ferguson tractor |
total | 22 | 10 |
Source: Field Observations – Monitoring Israeli Human Rights Violations Team – LRC
Al Ka’abna:
Al Ka’abna come originally from Ber Shiva area; they were deported from their lands in 1948 as part of the Israeli ethnic cleansing policy. They moved to areas in southern Hebron. Some of them moved further north to the Jordan Valley area seeking water and fertile lands.
Al Ka’abna dwelling, one of the largest in the Jordan Valley area, has been targeted numerous times; huge areas were turned into closed military zones, inaccessible by the Palestinians only. Al Ka’abna dwelling near Bardala is inhabited by 6 families (49 people including 24 children).
