Palestinians stand on the rubble of a demolished building in the village of Khallet al-Dabaa in the occupied West Bank on May 6, 2025, after Israeli forces destroyed 95 percent of all homes, displacing around a hundred people. (Credit: AFP)
It was May 5, 2025, around 11:30 a.m. Almost nothing remained of the hamlet of Khallet al-Dabaa, a town in the semi-desert area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron. The Israeli bulldozers had taken everything: houses, caves, water tanks, solar panels, leaving 100 residents stranded. For the Palestinians, this violence was not new. It was a shift in scale rather than nature. There was the violence of the occupying army that could arrive in the middle of the night to burn down their homes and humiliate the parents in front of their children. And then there was the complementary violence of settlers who sow terror and harass the population with physical and verbal assaults, stone-throwing at their properties, and burn them down.A state-supported omnipotence with deep roots. In the early 1980s, Israel designated a 3,000-hectare military...
It was May 5, 2025, around 11:30 a.m. Almost nothing remained of the hamlet of Khallet al-Dabaa, a town in the semi-desert area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron. The Israeli bulldozers had taken everything: houses, caves, water tanks, solar panels, leaving 100 residents stranded. For the Palestinians, this violence was not new. It was a shift in scale rather than nature. There was the violence of the occupying army that could arrive in the middle of the night to burn down their homes and humiliate the parents in front of their children. And then there was the complementary violence of settlers who sow terror and harass the population with physical and verbal assaults, stone-throwing at their properties, and burn them down.A state-supported omnipotence with deep roots. In the early 1980s, Israel designated a 3,000-hectare military...
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