“This was my home”, an elderly lady pointed to a twisted wreckage of a car. “I’ve had to live in this broken car since the settlers murdered my husband. My house was destroyed ten years ago, now the army have even bulldozed the car- this was my ‘Tel Aviv’ villa -Where is the democracy? It has been so hard on my own; I have to care for my land, my olive trees and my flock. This is my place and I’m not leaving!”

“I’ve had to live in this broken car since the settlers murdered my husband. My house was destroyed ten years ago, now the army have even bulldozed the car- this was my ‘Tel Aviv’ villa

The red-cross supplied tents for some of the Bedouin families, who had their homes, cave dwellings, tents, animal shelters and food-storage destroyed by the Israeli military. A week after we left, the soldiers bulldozed the new tents.

The Bedouin communities in the Yatta region are the only obstacles in the way of the Israeli military joining Qiryat Arba settlement (near Hebron) to Israel.