The occupation threatens to demolish a playground in Umm Al-Khair – East Yatta/ Hebron governorate

• Violation: Threatens to demolish a play ground.
• Date: 18/2/2019.
• Location: Umm Al-Khair – Yatta town / Hebron governorate.
• Perpetrator: The Israeli occupation civil administration.
• Victims: children of Umm Al-Khair.

Description:

The occupation’s authorities threatened to demolish a children playground in Umm Al-Khair on the pretext of building before getting proper licenses. The occupation’s troops placed a notice on the property, giving the responsible only 3 days to object on the demolition resolution.

In 18 /1/2015 , the occupation troops issued a halt of work military order on a children playground, which is built on 1 dunums within Umm Al-Khair natural reserve area, Read LRC report.

It should be marked that Khirbet Umm al-Khair is adjacent to Karmeil colony that is located on confiscated lands from the people of Um al-Khair. The Israeli occupation authorities target the Khirbet with stop-work and demolition orders for the sake of forcing residents out of it; this would make a room for the occupation and colonists to expand their colonies in the nearby.

Khirbet Umm Al-Khair in lines:

The khirbet is inhabited by people from Al-Hathaleen clan , who settled there several decades ago after Israel expelled them from the Arad desert in 1948 , it is reported that Umm Al-Khair population reached 686 people in 2017. the nearby settlement, Carmel, lies on lands confiscated from the Bedouin of that village. Carmel settlers frequently attack Bedouins of Umm al-Khair. Noteworthy, Regavim pro-settlement NGO targets the Khirbet , and provokes to demolish any new structures.