Umm al-Khair and its continuous suffering with the occupation by Awdah
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In Khirbet Umm al-Khair, life has become unbearable, and the situation is getting worse day after day, especially the last two years. At first, the residents of Umm al-Khair village were made refugees by the Nakba. They were displaced from their lands in the Arad region, so they came and bought lands in the south of Hebron and Masafer Yatta. They were silent about it. After that, the occupation began construction of an Israeli settlement next to the village in the 1980s. This settlement caused them many problems, as a large part of their land was confiscated for the benefit of the settlers, and they were prevented from obtaining sufficient amounts of water and electricity. In the 1990s, the settlement built chicken farms in the eastern direction of the village, which is only a few meters away from the entrance to the village. These farms are fully and permanently connected to electricity, and are connected to the electricity from the settlement on the western side. Electricity passes over the village and to the chicken farms, but over the original Palestinian residents, who see electricity passing over them and cannot access it. This is one of the examples of discrimination and racism that Palestinians face in Masafer Yatta and the South Hebron area.
Umm al-Khair and its continuous suffering with the occupation by Awdah
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Umm al-Khair and its continuous suffering with the occupation by Awdah
In Khirbet Umm al-Khair, life has become unbearable, and the situation is getting worse day after day, especially the last two years. At first, the residents of Umm al-Khair village were made refugees by the Nakba. They were displaced from their lands in the Arad region, so they came and bought lands in the south of Hebron and Masafer Yatta. They were silent about it. After that, the occupation began construction of an Israeli settlement next to the village in the 1980s. This settlement caused them many problems, as a large part of their land was confiscated for the benefit of the settlers, and they were prevented from obtaining sufficient amounts of water and electricity. In the 1990s, the settlement built chicken farms in the eastern direction of the village, which is only a few meters away from the entrance to the village. These farms are fully and permanently connected to electricity, and are connected to the electricity from the settlement on the western side. Electricity passes over the village and to the chicken farms, but over the original Palestinian residents, who see electricity passing over them and cannot access it. This is one of the examples of discrimination and racism that Palestinians face in Masafer Yatta and the South Hebron area.