The new school year has started and harvest season is just around the corner, but some of the men and boys of Masafer Yatta are busy working on a different project – moving into a cave.
In Khribet al-Fakhiet, a village deep in the occupied West Bank, residents were using a winch mounted on a pickup truck to help clear out a cavern housing sheep and goats. Faced with the demolition of their home, livestock pens and other structures, one family is preparing to relocate into the cave before winter comes.
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