Bedouin of al-Araqib face routine demolitions
Following the 1948 War, the Bedouin population in the Negev Desert in southern Israel was forced to change its way of life. Prior to that time Bedouin wandered freely in the deserts, which are now...
View ArticleVillage of Amniyr bulldozed five times in 2011
Amniyr is a small village of 11 families in the South Hebron Hills, just northeast of the Palestinian village of Susiya and the illegal Israeli settlement bearing the same name. The main occupation of...
View ArticleAbu Eid family compound demolished in Lod
October 2010 saw a dramatic rise in violence through out the mixed city of Lod. Due to the situation, the Israeli government created an urgent development plan for the city. The budget allocated 4...
View ArticleFamily D: Watching settlers harvest their trees
The remains of the D Family home. Mr. D is the patriarch of an extended family living near Hebron. The clan has resided in the Hebron area for over 1,000 years and now numbers over 19,000 people in the...
View ArticleFamily K: No “natural growth”
The rubble of Family K's old house surrounds their rebuilt one. Mr. K is a high school mathematics teacher who lives with his family in the village of Shukba in the central West Bank. One day his...
View ArticleFamily F: Refused permits, built anyway
Demolished home debrisMr. F lives in the village of Shukba in the Central West Bank. The Israeli army destroyed 6 houses in the village in one day in 2006. Though it had proved impossible to obtain...
View ArticleFamily M2: Your house or your village.
Forced to dismantle their home by the Israeli Authorities.Mr. M2 built his home in 2006, adjacent to his parent’s home on the family land. In 2007 they were forced to dismantle the home by the Israeli...
View ArticleM family suffers two house demolitions
The M Family outside their house, rebuilt by ICAHD & ICAHD-USAZatara is situated just south of Jerusalem in Area ‘C’ near the Har Homa settlement. The family paid over 7,000 shekels to apply for a...
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