THE DESTRUCTION OF MASAFER YATTA.

According to the letter of the military law, the declaration of a firing zone does not apply to permanent residents in the territory, but since, as the state claimed, the residents of Masafer Yatta were only "seasonal", their expulsion should be permitted. FEATURES SO'ED OD, A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL, IS ONE OF AROUND 1,000 Palestinian residents of the eight villages in Masafer Yatta - a small region of rugged hills at the southern edge of the occupied West Bank. In May of last year, a three-judge panel of the Supreme Court rejected the residents' appeal against the firing zone, effectively giving the army permission to continue to displace the Palestinians from their land. Settlements like Susya, Ma'on, and Carmel were part of the state's policy of cutting off the Palestinian population in the Negev, which is inside Israel, from the Palestinian population in the southern West Bank, like the residents of Masafer Yatta. [Extracted from the article]