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Evidence: Iman Hamayel, from the El-Bireh region of the West Bank, shows a document proving her ownership of land appropriated by Psagot winery, 13 September 2025 <\/p>\n
Ahmad Al-Bazz\n<\/p>\n
Across the rolling hills south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, vineyards fill the arid landscape, the vines stretching in rows towards the horizon. Next to recently planted stocks, the traces of a forcibly displaced community can still be seen. A child\u2019s bicycle, an old suitcase and a dusty boot are among the belongings left behind by Palestinians who fled after enduring relentless Israeli settler violence.<\/p>\n
Issa Abu al-Qabash, known as \u2018Abu Safi\u2019, was older than the state of Israel when settlers attacked him and violently expelled him from his home in nearby Khirbet ar-Ratheem. \u2018They kept threatening us, every night, every day, every hour they humiliated us\u2026 They hit me \u2013 five of them \u2013 with M16s, right between my eyes. They told me, \u201cYou will die if you don\u2019t leave. You have five days to go\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n
Near Abu Safi\u2019s land, new vineyards have recently been planted. The South Hebron Hills are one of the regions where settler grape cultivation is expanding fast. As settler attacks intensify, Palestinian land is depopulated, seized and absorbed into expanding Israeli settlements, paving the way for the annexation of the West Bank.<\/p>\n
\u2018My grandfather bought the land from another tribe during Ottoman times, and we had been living there ever since. It was passed on to my father, and then to us\u2026 We lived off this land, from its produce, from its blessings,\u2019 said Abu Safi. But now \u2018everything is gone\u2026 We are ruined, scattered\u2026 They uprooted us, expelled us from our own land.\u2019<\/p>\n
Abu Safi died a few months after this interview. Khirbet ar-Ratheem is one of more than 70 Palestinian communities forcibly removed since October 2023, as Israeli violence aimed at displacing and dispossessing Palestinians has escalated across the occupied West Bank. Over the past two years, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed, including at least 213 children, with thousands more injured in attacks by the Israeli military or settlers, often acting in coordination.\u00a0(\u2026)<\/p>\n
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(3<\/a>)\u00a0According to figures from Israel\u2019s finance ministry, consulted by Shalom Akhshav (Peace Now), and reported by the organisation Who Profits, which also identified \u20ac1m in government subsidies received by Psagot since 2018, www.whoprofits.org\/companies\/company\/4149\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n (5<\/a>)\u00a0See psagotwines.com\/en\/about\/.<\/p>\n