"This week, the head of the South Hebron Hills settlers' council proudly boasted about a new land-grab project: a tourist promenade that will connect Carmel to Ma'on. In practice, this is a continuation of the takeover of land belonging to the Palestinian village of Jawiya — agricultural fields and grazing areas that the villagers used freely until 2021, and which have been restricted ever since."

Then, settlers — including Yissakhar Man — arrived with a military escort and claimed they were leasing the land. Since then, a large vineyard has been established there, and Palestinian access has been prohibited. The authorities are preventing the original landowners from entering, and aggression toward shepherds and farmers has intensified — both in the remaining grazing areas and within the village itself.

Today, the residents of Jawwaya endure daily violence, their livelihoods have been harmed, and the Civil Administration is demolishing their homes. To all this is now added a tourist trail for Israelis, who are invited to hike, jog, and enjoy the view — at the expense of the people of Jawwaya, whose lives and safety are being trampled. Continue the thread for events that took place in the same area —"

ON jULY 2024, a bulldozer working on behalf of settlers was flattening an area of land belonging to the village of Jawiya. The work was taking place adjacent to the vast area already allocated to Yissakhar Min — at the expense of Jawaya’s grazing lands — where a vineyard was planted over two years ago. The work was illegal even under Israeli law, and certainly under international law.

On June, 2024: Israeli forces demolished a large residential home in Jawaya. During the demolition, they also found an opportunity to beat some of the residents

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, 2024

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 Destruction of a water cistern today in the village of Jawaya. At the height of summer, Israeli demolition forces arrived to destroy a cistern used by the residents of Jawaya, who cannot connect to a regular running water supply because the occupying forces refuse to allow them to develop an organized water system.

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.