Summary
Village in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, five minutes from the settlement of Havat Ma’on, whose residents Luna and Mariam testify in Chapter 7 of From the River to the Sea to settler attacks, road closures and a settler shooting in October 2023 (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 509-537).
Details
- Settlers attacked Luna’s family in their house, shot at her father and broke his hand with a gun butt, and shot her cousin; settlers now come wearing soldiers’ clothes (line 515).
- Soldiers closed almost all roads out of the village on 7 October, and settlers and soldiers later bulldozed the last agricultural road to Jawaya (lines 523-525).
- Mariam’s husband Zakariyah was shot in the stomach by an armed settler on the main street after Friday prayers; the ambulance ordered to transfer him to Hebron was stopped by soldiers and turned back to Yatta hospital (lines 529-537).
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Masafer Yatta, Hebron