22 June 2022
خ. المجاز, خ. ألمركز, خ. جنبة, خ. الحلاوة, خلة الضبع, خ. الفخيت, خ. التبان, خ. اصَفِي التحتا, خ. اصفي الفوقا, Kh. al-Majaz, al-Markez, Kh. Jenbah, Kh.al-Halawah, Kh. Khilet a-Dabe', Kh. al-Fakhit, Kh. a-Taban, Kh. a-Safai al-Foaqa, Kh. a-Safai a-Tahta, Kh. al-Majaz, Kh. al-Markez, Kh. Jenbah, Kh.al-Halawah, Kh. Khallet a-Dabe', Kh. al-Fakhit, Kh. a-Taban, Kh. a-Safai al-Foqa, Kh. a-Safai a-Tahta
After Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled the state can expel some 1,000 Palestinians from their homes in an area it designated “Firing Zone 918” in Masafer Yatta, the South Hebron Hills, the military informed the Palestinian DCO that troops will be training in the area for a month, every Tuesday and Wednesday, from 12:00 to 6:00 P.M. On the morning of 21 June 2022, the military placed targets around the community of Khirbet al-Maghaz. Some of the targets were placed on a water container, on a tractor wagon and on sheaves of straw. At around 3:00 P.M., two Merkava tanks approached the community along with an infantry troop. The force advanced slowly, with the tanks emitting blue camouflage smoke and damaging farmland. When it was about 100 to 150 meters from the community, it turned back and left. On 22 June 2022, at around 12:00 P.M., a military force left a base within Israel’s borders and headed northeast, arriving at an area that lies between the communities of Khirbet al-Markaz and Khirbet Jenbah in Masafer Yatta. Upon arrival, the force, which included tanks and two bulldozers, stayed motionless for some three hours. It then advanced into farmland and entered a harvested wheat field. Community residents heard explosions, apparently caused by shelling from the tanks. The force then advanced east to the outskirts of Khirbet al-Fakhit, where it stopped for about 15 minutes, during which about 20 infantry soldiers trained in the fields with a helicopter flying low above them. The soldiers destroyed part of a wheat field that had not yet been harvested. Several activists protested the training. Soldiers pushed some of them, knocking them to the ground. Two Israeli activists were detained for about 15 minutes.