On 8 Sept. 2017, at about 3:00 P.M., a military force came with a
bulldozer to the dirt road that connects the town of Yatta with the
villages of Masafer Yatta, dug it up and blocked it off with rocks. The
destruction of the road, which had been renovated just a day earlier
with aid funding, forces villagers to now take a long detour. Masafer
Yatta, which extends southeast of Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, is
home to more than 1,000 people which Israel has been trying to expel for
many years, including by declaring the area Firing Zone 918.