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An excavator demolishes one of the cisterns. Photo by Ahmad Abu Jundiyeh, 24 July 2019
Today, Wednesday, 24 July 2019, at around 7:30 A.M.,, Civil Administration personnel arrived at the nature reserve between the villages of Um al-Kheir and a-Najada (Humeida) in the South Hebron Hills, along with soldiers, Border Police officers, a bulldozer and an excavator. The forces demolished four water cisterns that were dug in 2006 with funding from a humanitarian organization and served area residents to irrigate their crops. Earlier this month, a Civil Administration force uprooted about 300 acacia trees in the reserve.