Residents of the southern Hebron neighborhood of al-Harika have suffered
incessant soldier and military-backed settler harassment ever since the
settlement of Kiryat Arba was built next door in 1972. In five months
this year, we documented five such attacks. These and other cases
previously documented by B'Tselem illustrate how fragile, exposed and
unpredictable life is in the neighborhood. The intolerable living
conditions created by Israel’s policy drive Palestinians to abandon
homes and businesses in the neighborhood.