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The West Bank community of Umm al-Khair has been consumed by the illegal Israeli settlement of Carmel. But despite losing land and loved ones, Palestinians there refuse to leave. \u201cThis is my land,” says Ahmad Hathaleen. “This is where I belong.”<\/div>\n
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The jeep that takes us to Umm al-Khair rocks from side to side, as if we were on a boat in open water. At the wheel is Ali Awad, a Palestinian journalist from the nearby village of Tuba. Almost every formal route connecting Tuba to Umm al-Khair has been destroyed by the Zionist state; what remains is a single dirt road, crudely carved through the hills of the southern West Bank\u2019s semi-desert of\u00a0Masafer Yatta<\/a>\u00a0by the local residents themselves. Few vehicles can make the journey: tractors during the planting season or when feed must be hauled in for livestock; military vehicles, which patrol the area day after day; and the occasional car engineered for rough terrain. Ali\u2019s jeep is one of them.<\/p>\n

Ali has brought us here to show us how the Zionist state is advancing its colonial project on the ground, turning Umm al-Khair, piece by piece, into what can only be described as an island encircled by a colony.<\/p>\n

He glances into the rear view mirror, scanning for soldiers. Nothing, the road is clear. He takes a drag from his cigarette and presses down on the accelerator.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s illegal to be here,\u201d he tells us.<\/p>\n

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In May 2022, Israel\u2019s High Court\u00a0authorized the expulsion of thousands<\/a>\u00a0of Palestinians from Masafer Yatta, designating 3,600 hectares as a \u201cclosed military zone\u201d called Firing Zone 918. Anyone found inside it \u2014 especially non-residents \u2014 faces detention and potentially deportation. \u201cIt\u2019s risky,\u201d Ali says. \u201cBut it\u2019s very important to document what\u2019s happening in Umm al-Khair.\u201d<\/p>\n

To our left, Israeli flags line the roadside by the dozens. To our right, Hebrew lettering announces the settlement ahead: Carmel. Established in 1980 as a military outpost, Carmel was formalized into a settlement a year later \u2014 a familiar tactic in the Zionist expansion across the West Bank. Over time, it became a town: hundreds of settlers, dozens of houses, a school, a synagogue, shops, and even bars. It looms over Umm al-Khair, just a few meters away.<\/p>\n

The jeep follows the road tracing the settlement\u2019s edge. Stone walls rise beside us, reinforced with metal fencing and surveillance cameras. As we turn the first bend, we encounter about ten settlers. Several are armed with semi-automatic rifles. Some are minors, or even children, though a few of them are armed as well.<\/p>\n

They stand in the road, unhurried, blocking our path. Ali tenses up. He eases onto the brake, slowing the jeep, and takes a deep breath, collecting himself. He asks us not to film. The settlers part just enough to let us through, gripping their weapons as we move past. One of them shouts: \u201cGo away!\u201d We drive another ten meters and finally stop. We have arrived in Umm al-Khair.<\/p>\n

The village\u2019s social center looks, at first glance, like any other. Children run playfully back and forth. People sit in a circle, chatting and drinking tea or coffee. There are swings and slides for the kids. Everything appears normal.<\/p>\n

Except for the names of the martyrs painted among the bright colors of the wall. Except for the armed settlers lingering just outside the fence, beside the playground full of children. Except for the fact that anyone here could be detained at a moment\u2019s notice, simply for being present, and that the social center itself could be demolished at any time.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery construction that you see in front of you \u2014 either it was demolished once or twice, or it has already a demolition order,\u201d says Ahmad Hathaleen, resident of Umm al-Khair. \u201cEven a simple playground, which is only ground and benches and some games for the children, has a demolition order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demolitions in Umm al-Khair began in 2007, following approval of a plan to expand the Carmel settlement. Since then, the army has destroyed hundreds of structures, some more than once, as residents insist on rebuilding what the Zionist project repeatedly tears down.<\/p>\n

The Hathaleen family arrived in Umm al-Khair more than 70 years ago, displaced during the Nakba \u2014 catastrophe, in Arabic \u2014 when around 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and over 500 villages and towns were destroyed following the creation of the state of Israel. Around that time, the Hathaleens were forced out of Arad in the Naqab desert. Today, Arad is a city of nearly 30,000 settlers.<\/p>\n

Ahmad Hathaleen was born here, in Umm al-Khair, thirty years ago: \u201cEvery single day, since I was born until today, there\u2019s a daily struggle because of the occupation.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Carmel expanded, with the state\u2019s support and the army\u2019s protection, so did the pressure on the village. In recent years, settler violence has escalated \u2014 harassment and attacks, olive trees cut down, agricultural fencing destroyed, animals stolen, and land confiscated. Nearly all agricultural land and grazing areas have been taken by settlers. \u201cThe village used to have 3,500 sheep and goats,\u201d says Ahmad. \u201cNow,\u201d between the roughly 40 families of Umm al-Khair, \u201cyou can\u2019t find 150.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see the setters?\u201d Ali Awad asks, pointing towards a group singing and dancing on the other side of the fence, about ten meters from where the interview is taking place. \u201cPeople cannot move outside in that direction. Only from the road we used, with a car. You see a lot of land around Umm al-Khair, but it\u2019s under the control of the settlers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, in 2025, settlers from Carmel pushed the expansion further. They placed caravans beside Palestinian homes, enclosing yet another section of the village. \u201cNow the village is going to be completely surrounded by a settlement,\u201d Ahmad says, \u201cputting the houses of Umm al-Khair in the middle.\u201d Like an island inside a settlement.<\/p>\n

On July 28, after weeks of escalating attacks, Yinon Levi arrived with an excavator. Levi is a settler known for his violence who has been sanctioned by both the United States and the European Union due to repeated attacks against Palestinians. He established the Meitarim Farm outpost, was one of the people responsible for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian village of Zanuta, and was now leading new land grabs in Umm al-Khair. \u201cHe was constructing where they [the roughly ten settlers nearby] are praying exactly, and where they erected the caravans,\u201d says Ahmad Hathaleen.<\/p>\n

At first, he says, no one confronted him. But when he began tearing up water pipes and uprooting trees that sustained nearby families, Ahmad stepped in front of the machine. He pleaded \u2013 in Arabic, English, Hebrew. Levi did not stop. He drove the excavator into him, hitting him with the hammer, and Ahmad lost consciousness.<\/p>\n

People ran towards the commotion, residents and international activists alike. Among them was Awdah Hathaleen, Ahmad\u2019s cousin, a 31-year-old English teacher and well-known organizer in Umm al-Khair. Awdah stood near the playground, filming the scene unfolding before him. And then, suddenly, Yinon opened fire. In the video Awdah recorded himself, one can hear his breath faltering after the bullet strikes his chest. He collapsed and was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cYinon shot Awdah because he knows that Awdah is a very popular activist and they don\u2019t want media coverage here. They don\u2019t want people to write or talk about their harassment and their policies against the Palestinians,\u201d Ahmad said. \u201cThe killing of Awdah was a clear targeted assassination because he was not just a random person. He was known for his writings and for his connections to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Awdah\u2019s death was devastating for Umm al-Khair. He was a central figure in the resistance not only in Umm al-Khair but across Masafer Yatta. \u201cIt\u2019s hard. It\u2019s really hard,\u201d says Alaa Hathaleen, Awdah\u2019s brother-in-law. \u201cBecause, I tell you, if it was anybody but Awdah, it would be easier. Awdah is loved by everyone. You will not find anybody who hated Awdah. He\u2019s the best. He was working for everybody, helping the community, trying to get funds for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The same day Awdah was killed, the Zionist army detained and expelled people from the village. Several were taken to the Ofer military prison in the West Bank, including Ahmad Hathaleen and Ali Awad. \u201cWe were tortured with all kinds of means of torture,\u201d Ali says. The army then withheld Awdah\u2019s body. Their condition for returning it: a funeral of no more than fifteen people, held at night, and in the city of Yatta, not Umm al-Khair where Awdah had lived his entire life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people said no,\u201d Ahmad recalls. \u201cAwdah needs a funeral as big as what he did for his community.\u201d The army refused. Four days later, Yinon Levi, who had been placed in house arrest, was released. He returned to Umm al-Khair as if nothing had happened.<\/p>\n

After every avenue \u2014 media presence, diplomatic appeals, activist campaigns \u2014 failed to get Awdah\u2019s body back,\u00a070 women from Umm al-Khair<\/a>\u00a0decided to take matters into their own hands and launch a hunger strike. \u201cAwdah would have a funeral that matched his value as a human being and as an activist who sacrificed his life for his community,\u201d says Ahmad.<\/p>\n

Six days later \u2014 ten days after his death \u2014 his body was returned. Awdah Hathaleen was buried in Umm al-Khair on August 7. Hundreds of people marched, despite the army erecting three checkpoints to block access to visitors.<\/p>\n

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PALESTINIANS ATTEND THE FUNERAL OF AWDAH AL-HATHALEEN IN UMM AL-KHAIR, MASAFER YATTA, AUGUST 7, 2025. (PHOTO: \u00a9 ILIA YEFIMOVICH\/DPA VIA ZUMA PRESS\/APA IMAGES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The village lost an organizer, a beloved companion, and three kids lost their father. The oldest was five years old, the youngest still a baby. \u201cI\u2019m in the worst situation ever,\u201d says Hanady Hathaleen, Awdah\u2019s widow. \u201cEvery day, it\u2019s harder and harder. It\u2019s like all our lives are just gone. All our dreams, the safety we once had. If we once had safety, it was Awdah. If we had good things in life, it was Awdah.\u201d<\/p>\n

The children ask for their father every day. \u201cThey remember their dad very well. They wish to die like he did,\u201d she says. \u201cTwo nights ago, [the older one] told me: \u2018I want to trick the gods, pretend that I am dead, so they will take me to my dad, and this will be the best thing that ever happened.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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As we sit in the community center, the settlers remain just meters away, outside the fence. They sing, dance, and pray progressively louder, as if to drown out the conversation. \u201cThey have a very big synagogue inside Carmel, but these acts of prayer are to provoke the people,\u201d Ahmad claims. \u201cTheir clear goal is kicking the people from here, stealing the land.\u201d<\/p>\n

We ask him why he decided to stay.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandparents were refugees from 1948, and they moved here. If I leave from here, where am I going to go?\u201d he replies. \u201cEven if I moved to another place, that doesn\u2019t mean that there\u2019s going to be a future in that place. Then, there is the respect for the people who died and sacrificed their life for this land. We have to be resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Ahmad, to leave Umm al-Khair after the sacrifice of the martyrs, who died so their families could stay, would be a betrayal. \u201cThis is my country,\u201d he adds. \u201cThis is my land. This is where I belong. Why should there even be a question of leaving or staying? The settler, the illegal settler who came here, is the one who must leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

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