In Jawaya (Masafer Yatta) Settlers take over water cisterns, damage water tanks and pipelines in the villages, and then the Civil Administration arrives and officially destroys them. This is how Israel dries out the village residents in order to force them to leave their land.

On July 5, 2024

Footage shows Israeli settlers attacking a group of foreign peace activists visiting the Palestinian village of Al-Jawaya south of Al Khalil in the occupied West Bank.

On July 21, 2025

In the morning, a bulldozer working for settlers flattened land belonging to the village of Jawawiya. The work is taking place right next to the vast area already allocated to Yissakhar Man — at the expense of Jawawiya’s grazing lands — where a vineyard was planted over two years ago. As far as we know, the work is illegal even under Israeli law, and certainly under international law.

On Augustus 5, 2024

On Augustus 8, 2024

IDF demolition vehicles destroy a water well in the Wadi Al-Jawaya

On March 15, 2025

• Israeli settlers with ATV quad chased Palestinian shepherds in Jawaya village.

• According to Waffa, Israeli sttlers, under the protection of Israeli military forces, attacked shepherds in the Masafer Yatta region, south of Hebron, forcing them at gunpoint to leave their lands.

• Osama Makhamreh, an anti-settlement activist, told WAFA that settlers assaulted the family of Ahmad Barghash al-Shawahin while they were herding their livestock in Wadi al-Jawaya. The settlers chased them and forced them, under threat of weapons, to abandon their land.

• According to Osama Makhamreh, heavily armed settlers also stormed Khirbet al-Tuba, terrifying children and women.