CPTnet
8 September 2007
AT-TUWANI: Demolition in South Hebron Hills
by Seán O'Neill
Around 9:00 a.m. on 6 September 2007, a convoy of several Israeli army jeeps
was seen on route 317--the settler bypass road--escorting a bulldozer, which
great concern among the Palestinian residents of the area.
At 10:15 a.m., the convoy entered the settlement of Ma'on and took down a
tent the settlers had erected on land belonging to the village of Tuba. The
residents of the area remained worried because military demolitions of
settlement outposts historically precede demolitions of Palestinian homes in
the area. Indeed, word of a house demolition reached Tuwani later in the
evening. It took place in the nearby village of Ad Deirat at 11:30 a.m.
Team contacts in the village of Tuba, located on the eastern side of the
Ma'on settlement, reported in the evening that the settlers had already
begun rebuilding in the location where the army had removed their tent.
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