Translation of the thread

"1/4 Residents of the village of Umm al-Khair in the Yatta Massafar region woke up this morning to the sound of heavy tools that settlers had brought to the outskirts of their homes. Near the village homes, the settlers began measuring and drilling into the land, claiming that it belonged to them. The settlers worked for hours and happily watched as the villagers were forced to watch their land being stolen without being able to do anything. 2/4 The settlers who participated in the work: Settler Issachar Man from the Masek Man outpost, and Settler Shimon Atiya from the Havat Shorashim outpost, along with the violent boy who accompanies him. Without shame, the following video was released today on the Facebook account of the Mount Hebron Council- 3/4 We remind you that the residents of the village of Umm al-Khair arrived in their current location after being expelled from their village in the Negev during the Nakba, and bought the land on which their village is located from the landowners who were residents of Yatta. The Jordanian occupation that ruled at the time recognized the purchase, but one day the Israeli occupation arrived in the West Bank and declared ownership of the village's lands. 4/4 In the 1980s, the residents of the village were expelled from most of its area, which became a military base and three years later the Carmel settlement. The residents of Umm al-Khair remained in the small part of the village that remained to them, and since then they have lived there under daily abuse and expulsion attempts by settlers, the army, police and the Israeli courts."

Umm al-Khair is a Palestinian village located in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the southern West Bank. It was inhabited by five families, roughly 70 people, in 2008. By 2017, the population of the village was 686.

The Palestinian village of Umm Al-Khair, is located in the Masafer Yatta region and Area C of the Occupied West Bank, which is under full Israeli civil and military control. The residents of Umm Al-Khair are a model of resilience in the face of occupation and ethnic cleansing. Their ancestors were expelled from their homes in what is now Israel in 1948 before purchasing the land of their current village. Several decades later, much of their land was confiscated by the Israeli government in order to create a Jewish-only settlement adjacent to the village.

For several years, Umm Al-Khair has been under constant threat of demolition and expulsion as the State of Israel seeks to confine Area C Palestinians into ever smaller areas. The residents of the settlement--just a 2 minute walk away--live in swanky modern homes with government-supplied electricity and running water; Umm Al-Khair residents lack permits to build a sufficient number of permanent structures, regularly purchase overpriced tanks for their water, and rely on donated solar panels for limited electricity. The stark contrast between the settlement and Umm Al-Khair is one of the clearest views of Israel's apartheid system.

Since October 7, the situation in Umm Al-Khair has become worse than residents can ever remember, and the village's neediest families, all of whom have lost their sources of income due to Israeli travel restrictions and settler violence, urgently need our support.

Chronology (ongoing)

On June 27, 2024

in the morning the Israeli army raided the village of Umm Al-Khair and destroyed at least 11 homes and structures in the village, including its community tent. 40 people in the village were now newly homeless.