The Struggle for Susiya: the Story of a Palestinian Village
Susiya—a small hamlet in the West Bank housing Palestinian shepherds and farmers—made international headlines in 2015 after the Israeli High Court refused to freeze orders calling for its demolition.
by Asad Dandia
It is a warm summer day in late July 2015 as my Palestinian hosts and I drive through the West Bank. We are in Hebron, driving south toward the outskirts of the city. As we make our way out of town, we are met by a stunningly unique landscape.
To our right, there are evenly distributed white hills, ornamented with beautiful green orchards and olive trees; to our left, we see vast plantations where farmers till their agriculture and Bedouins herd their livestock. It is a calm and delightful paradise.
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