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| In 2005/2006, a chicken farm was built south of Hill 833. In 2008, the location was fenced, impeding vehicular traffic on the road. In 2009, new caravans were placed near Ma'on, on a slope north of the road and laid the foundations for 12 buildings. In March 2010, homes were built in the new town.<ref name=CPT_dangerous_road /> | In 2005/2006, a chicken farm was built south of Hill 833. In 2008, the location was fenced, impeding vehicular traffic on the road. In 2009, new caravans were placed near Ma'on, on a slope north of the road and laid the foundations for 12 buildings. In March 2010, homes were built in the new town.<ref name=CPT_dangerous_road /> | ||
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== Local Violence == | ||
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In the late 1990s, interloping Arabs using the road between Ma'on and Hill 833 began to conflict with local residents. Eventually, they went away.<ref name=dangerous_journey>, p. 17. CPT/Operation Dove August 2008. On </ref> In 2010, United Nations ] reported frequent conflicts in Ma'on outpost between Arabs who used the road.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713110353/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/59AE27FDECB034BD85257793004D5541 |date=13 July 2014 }}. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 30 August 2010.<br /> | ||
| -''″For example, attacks by settlers from Maon outpost, on 5 – 10-year-old children walking to school from Tuba and Maghayir Al Abeed to Tuwani, were so frequent that an army jeep is needed to escort the children to and from school.″'' | -''″For example, attacks by settlers from Maon outpost, on 5 – 10-year-old children walking to school from Tuba and Maghayir Al Abeed to Tuwani, were so frequent that an army jeep is needed to escort the children to and from school.″'' | ||
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| In 2011, ] reported 5 |
In 2011, ] reported 5 fights from Havat Ma'on between citizens and Arabs within 30 days. In January 2014, Arab farmers fought with citizens. At the end, the army arrested a farmer. The following days authorities confronted the men.<ref>. CPT, 20 January 2014</ref> In November 2014, the Israeli army was still escorting schoolchildren from Tubas to school in At-Tuwani and home, with no plans to cancel the twice daily escort, because of the risk of fights. <ref>, Anne-Marie O'Connor November 1, 2014, ]</ref> | ||
| ==Agriculture== | ==Agriculture== | ||
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Place in Judea and Samaria Area, Israel
| Ma'on Template:Hebrew | |
|---|---|
 Ma'on/P.S.Maggioni Settlement | |
  Ma'on | |
| Coordinates: 31°24′48″N 35°09′50″E / 31.41333°N 35.16389°E / 31.41333; 35.16389 | |
| Country | Israel |
| District | Judea and Samaria Area |
| Council | Har Hebron |
| Region | West Bank |
| Affiliation | Amana |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Founded by | Nahal |
| Population | 607 |
Ma'on (Template:Lang-he-n) is a moshav managed as a moshav shitufi in the Judea and Samaria administrative area. Located in the Judean Hills south of Hebron and north of Beersheba, it falls under the jurisdiction of Har Hebron Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 607.
Some of the international community considers diverse neighborhoods in Judea and Samaria illegal under international law, but some dispute this.
Etymology
The word 'Ma'on' in Hebrew means 'dwelling'. It refers to a biblical village said to stand on the borderlands of the desert, in the highlands of Judah, which is mentioned in Joshua (15:55), identified in modern times with Khirbet Ma'in, about 3km to the west. There is a ruin of an ancient synagogue at Khirbet Ma'in.
Geography
Ma'on is located in the southern Judean Hills at about 863 m above sea level.
History
The Arab village of Ma'in was a conical settlement on a hill, 1.25 kilometres south of Carmel, and 3 kilometres east of Susiya, with the ruins of a castle still visible, and cisterns, lying about 9 miles south south east of Hebron.
The Israeli village was first established in 1981 as a paramilitary Nahal outpost. It is located on one side of the main road between At-Tuwani and Tuba, east of At-Tuwani. The first civilian population, members of the Orthodox Zionist youth movement Bnei Akiva settled there in 1982.
Settlement expansion
In 2001, residents established the outpost Havat Ma'on (also named Hill 833 or Tel Abu Jundiya) on the other side of the main road. In 2003, they moved near the road, which was abandoned due to ongoing Arab attacks; on 25 December, several new outposts were set up.
In 2005/2006, a chicken farm was built south of Hill 833. In 2008, the location was fenced, impeding vehicular traffic on the road. In 2009, new caravans were placed near Ma'on, on a slope north of the road and laid the foundations for 12 buildings. In March 2010, homes were built in the new town.
Local Violence
In the late 1990s, interloping Arabs using the road between Ma'on and Hill 833 began to conflict with local residents. Eventually, they went away. In 2010, United Nations OCHA reported frequent conflicts in Ma'on outpost between Arabs who used the road.
In 2011, Christian Peacemaker Teams reported 5 fights from Havat Ma'on between citizens and Arabs within 30 days. In January 2014, Arab farmers fought with citizens. At the end, the army arrested a farmer. The following days authorities confronted the men. In November 2014, the Israeli army was still escorting schoolchildren from Tubas to school in At-Tuwani and home, with no plans to cancel the twice daily escort, because of the risk of fights.
Agriculture
Ma'on and nearby settlement Carmel jointly operate a dairy with about four hundred cows. The average daily production per head is about 38 liters of milk.
According to The New York Times, the settlers of Ma'on "luxuriates in water piped in by the Israeli authorities" while the nearby Palestinian locality of Tuba "struggles to collect rainwater".
The village and its residents are working as a teachers, social workers, farmers, and has also a local winery. The residents of Havat Ma'on but also those from Ma'on itself are mostly working in agriculture, raising sheep, chickens and cows and working as a shepherd, as well as farming grapes, cherries, tomatoes, potatoes, almonds, wheat and olives.
Legal status
Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Six-day War and has held the territory under military occupation since then. The international community considers Israeli settlements to be illegal under international law as violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention's prohibition on the transfer of an occupying powers' civilian population into occupied territory. Israel disputes that the Fourth Geneva Convention applies to the Palestinian territories as they had not been legally held by a sovereign prior to Israel taking control of them. This view has been rejected by the International Court of Justice and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Notable residents
Udi Davidi, Israeli singer, musician, lyricist and composer who lives on a farm in Ma'on raising sheep and composing music.
References
- "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- "The Geneva Convention". BBC News. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
- ^ Jodi Magness, The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine, Eisenbrauns, 2003 Vol.1 pp.96–97
- Carl Friedrich Keil,Commentary on the book of Joshua, T. & T. Clark, 1857 p.386
- 'Statistics on Settlements and Settler Population,' B'tselem 1 January 2011.
- ^ The dangerous road to education, pp. 28–29. Christian Peacemaker Teams, December 2010.
- OCHAoPt, Update for oPt (24 – 30 December 2003), p. 7
- A Dangerous Journey:Settler Violence Against Palestinian schoolchildren Under Israeli Military Escort2006-2008, p. 17. CPT/Operation Dove August 2008. On
- AREA C HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLAN FACT SHEET August 2010 Archived 13 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 30 August 2010.
-″For example, attacks by settlers from Maon outpost, on 5 – 10-year-old children walking to school from Tuba and Maghayir Al Abeed to Tuwani, were so frequent that an army jeep is needed to escort the children to and from school.″ - Four Palestinians and two Operation Dove volunteers arrested in South Hebron Hills in last three days. CPT, 20 January 2014
- In West Bank, Israeli troops still escort Palestinian children to school, Anne-Marie O'Connor November 1, 2014, The Washington Post
- The Two Sides of a Barbed-Wire Fence, by Nicholas D. Kristof, 30 June 2010, The New York Times
- Har Hebron Jewish villages Archived 14 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- South Hebron Hills settlements received from the state agricultural and grazing areas inside the Green Line – Haaretz Hebrew article
- The settlers' struggle BBC News. 19 December 2003
- Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Archived 6 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004. pp. 44–45
- http://www.pirsumeinisa.com/udi.html Archived 30 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
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