Naboth's Vineyard (Kerem Navot) is an Israeli NGO established in 2012, which monitors and carries out research on Israeli land policy in the West Bank.
Jul 3 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
1/ In 1978, the Israeli army expropriated about 600 dunams for the construction of a bypass road to connect the Beit Jibreen area west of the Green Line with Hebron. These were the years of the first Begin government. >> 2/ At that time Israel was busy with the madness of establishing new settlements in the heart of the West Bank in order to tear to pieces the Palestinian territory. The goal was achieved, and you can read about the consequences every day in the news. >>
Jun 20 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
1/ In the last few weeks, a new commentator in the field of war science, Col. Res. Hezi Nehama, has been gaining prominence. His recurring message, which is frequently quoted on far-right websites, is that the IDF is not fighting in a "winning form". >> 2/ While Nehama does not state this explicitly, he suggests that certain individuals within the General Staff are not committed enough to achieving victory. >>
May 24 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
1/ Over the years, Palestinians in the western and southwestern areas of Bethlehem have faced severe limitations on their freedom of movement. However, since October 7th, this process has accelerated dramatically and intensified significantly. >> 2/ Our mapping illustrates the roadblocks and barriers placed in the area, which shove aside Palestinian and enable Israel to exert control over additional areas in the region. >>
Mar 30 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
1/ We are back with the final post in the series concerning the mortgages of the old friends from Regavim: Smotrich the Minister of Finance @Israel_MOF , a resident of the settlement of Kedumim, and Yehuda Eliyahu the head of the Settlement Administration at the @israel_mod. >> 2/ Eliyahu is a resident of the isolated and violent outpost of Haresha. In the previous post, we described how the mortgage scheme worked for Yehuda Eliyahu and his neighbours in the outpost. >>
On May 22nd, 2023, the military commander of the West Bank, Major-General Yehuda Fuchs, signed Seizure Order No. 19/23. Seizure orders are (allegedly) temporary orders that the army issues for what it classifies as “security” needs. In practice, up until the early 1980s, the army
issued dozens of “temporary” seizure orders in order to establish settlements, while presenting these orders as “security orders.” Hundreds of other orders were issued over the years, in order to serve the security interests of settlers (fences, roads, cameras, and gates
Feb 20, 2023 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
Guest Post - Itai Feitelson
On Friday, January 1st, 2021, Civil Administration soldiers accompanied by military forces arrived at the village of Ar-Rakeez in Masafer Yatta, in order to confiscate a generator. A few residents tried to prevent the confiscation, and after a short
struggle, a Civil Administration general shot one of the residents in the neck from point-blank range. The Palestinian who was shot was called Haroun Abu-Aram. On February 14th, 2023, after 774 days, he passed away at the age of 26.
Jan 22, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Just a few days ago, the new IDF Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, was appointed. Halevi appears to be the only Chief of Staff in the world who runs the army of a state he doesn’t live in. After drip irrigation and cherry tomatoes, here is yet another original Israeli invention.
Herzi Halevi lives in the settlement of Kfar HaOranim, which is also called “Menora” and “Givat Ehud.” Now that he’s taken office, we thought it would be a suitable opportunity to turn the spotlight onto one of the more bourgeois settlements in the West Bank.
Dec 6, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The fundamentalist-Evangelical organization, Hayovel, continues to run wild under the cover of the settlers and the "Apartheid Defense Forces."
On October 27th, a few days before the most recent Israeli elections, a video was uploaded on the Facebook page of the
fundamentalist-Evangelical organization, “Hayovel” (bit.ly/3ut5rMw), in which the organization’s volunteers are documented planting trees. This video is part of a campaign they call “Greening Israel.” Needless to say in the case of this organization, which works in close
Dec 4, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
On the morning of Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022, the army and the Civil Administration demolished a new building of an elementary school, which was built in the Palestinian village of Khirbet Isfey--one of the shepherding villages in Masafer Yatta. This area was first declared
by the army to be “Firing Zone 918” in the early 1970s, even though about a dozen Palestian shepherding communities have lived there for generations. Last May, three judges of the High Court of Justice: Mintz, Grosskopf, and Amit, permitted the army to expel the residents of
Nov 30, 2022 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
About seven months ago (May 4th, 2022), three judges of the High Court of Justice allowed the army to expel the population of a dozen villages located in the Masafer Yatta area, an area which was partially declared to be “Firing Zone 918” at the end of 1971. There are about
1,500-2,000 residents who live in these shepherding villages. Since the announcement of the court ruling, the army has been making their lives miserable, though they were far from easy even before the ruling. What does it mean to make their lives miserable?
-They establish
Nov 24, 2022 • 30 tweets • 6 min read
Following the riots that were carried out in Hebron last weekend (during what is known as “Shabbat Chayeh Sarah,” meaning the Sabbath during which the Torah portion entitled “Chayeh Sarah” is recited) by an Israeli mob, we thought it would be useful to quickly review the history
of the Israeli settlement located there. Naturally, we will only highlight the events that we consider to be the most important in the history of this toxic settlement, which for years has constituted a center of attraction for the most violent and extremist actors on the
Nov 20, 2022 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Last Tuesday (November 15th), was another very sad day in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Three Israelis were murdered by a Palestinian next to the industrial zone of the settlement of Ariel. It later turned out that the killer was a 19-year-old who had a work
permit issued by the Civil Administration, which enabled him to work in the industrial zone. This criminal slaughter took place within a larger context that we believe must be talked about, especially on days when the conflict claims the lives of Israeli or Palestinian civilians.
Sep 20, 2022 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Guest Post- Itai Feitelson
On Monday afternoon (12/9/2022) settlers from Havat Maon attacked Hafez al-Huraini, on his private land next to the Palestinian village of At-Tuwani. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the story,
you should read the investigative report on the assault at @972mag website (The article - bit.ly/3BrCnbr) and the thread that was published here just a few days ago (bit.ly/3dtwyCq).
I don’t personally have a lot to add about what occurred that evening,
May 10, 2022 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
On the eve of Israeli Independence Day (May 4th, 2022), a verdict was published regarding the petitions of the residents of the villages located within “Firing Zone 918” in the South Hebron Hills. The main court ruling was written,
by one of the residents of an isolated and extremist settlement called Dolev. He was appointed in the beginning of 2017, during Ayelet Shaked’s term as Minister of Justice, to serve as a Justice of the High Court of Justice: Justice David Mintz.
May 8, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Anyone who has driven southward in the past year and a half on the Tunnels Road, can see above the northern tunnel a number of makeshift buildings and sheds that were built between agricultural terraces, a few dozen meters below the buildings of Gilo.
Welcome to the outpost/farm of “Mitzpe Rachel.”
If you’ve ever wondered, where are those outposts and pirated farms scattered throughout the West Bank--then here you go, you’re looking at one of them now. This illegal outpost,
May 5, 2022 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
The Civil Administration is not willing to pass on to us the results of a land “survey” that was conducted in Jabal Sabih, a place where in recent years one of the records of settlement madness was broken when an outpost was established there that settlers call “Eviatar”.
But first, a summary of the previous chapters in this story: it began over the course of last May, in the twilight of the neverending transitional government of opposition leader Netanyahu, who is suspected of three serious cases of corruption.
May 5, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Last week, the settlement of Nokdim was allowed to re-enter the dishonorable club of settlements for which the head of the Civil Administration signed an order of “Disruptive Use,” due to its residents’ invasions of privately owned Palestinian areas. This doesn’t surprise us,
of course. Anyone who follows this page is aware that this is a nasty settlement, in which a core group of insolent land looters operates.
An order of “Disruptive Use,” whose official name is an “order concerning real estate (Disruptive use of private land) (Judea and Samaria)
Dec 25, 2021 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Let’s talk about the settlement/outpost of Homesh, which has become one of the most violent hotspots of settler violence in the West Bank. Recently, Homesh once again made headlines due to violence, but this time, contrary to what has happened there in recent years,
the victims were Israeli. In Israeli political discourse, it is well known that it is forbidden to attempt to understand the reasons behind the outbreak of Palestinian violence, especially when it costs Israeli lives;
Aug 24, 2021 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
In December 2020, the Israel Land Council - the council that oversees the Israel Land Authority (ILA) - decided to establish a committee to assess “policy measures with regards to mining and quarrying...
in order to gather recommendations vis-à-vis necessary next steps towards obtaining a steady supply-stream of raw materials, in accordance with market needs.”
Aug 3, 2021 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
A little over two years ago, an illegal outpost was founded west of the settlement of Nili. The outpost was founded as an agricultural farm along with dozens of other similar outposts that were founded in recent years.
In theory, this isn’t a standard location for founding an outpost, since the settlement of Nili is a secular/bourgeois settlement located in the western part of the West Bank, near the villages of Shibtin and Deir Qadis, upon whose looted land it was founded.
Jul 9, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A bit more on the lawbreaking outpost of Eviatar:
Up-to-date aerial photographs that we acquired show that the settlers who invaded Mount Sbeih and established the outpost of Eviatar there, under the protection of the army, took over an area of about 35 dunams.
This is an area about 3.5 times larger than the area of the military base that had been in that location until the 1990s.