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Coordinates: 31°22′44″N 35°06′30″E / 31.3788°N 35.1082°E / 31.3788; 35.1082
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Haribat a-Nabi
هرابة النبي
Harabat al-Nabi; Hreibat al-Nabi; Hurabat al-Nabi; Khirbet Haribat a-Nabi
Hamlet
Haribat a-Nabi is located in West Bank
Haribat a-Nabi
Haribat a-Nabi
Location within the West Bank, Palestine
Coordinates: 31°22′44″N 35°06′30″E / 31.3788°N 35.1082°E / 31.3788; 35.1082
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateHebron Governorate
AreaMasafer Yatta
Time zoneUTC+2
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3

Haribat a-Nabi (Arabic: هرابة النبي, also spelled Harabat al-Nabi and Hreibat al-Nabi) is a small Palestinian herding hamlet in the South Hebron Hills, within the Masafer Yatta cluster of communities in the Hebron Governorate of the southern West Bank. Like other Masafer Yatta localities, it lies in Area C, and large parts of the surrounding landscape were designated Firing Zone 918 in the 1980s, constraining planning, service connections, and access to land.[1]

Geography

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Haribat a-Nabi lies in the arid uplands east of Yatta, within the dispersed cave-dwelling and herding landscape of Masafer Yatta. Its approximate location is 31°22′44″N 35°06′30″E / 31.3788°N 35.1082°E / 31.3788; 35.1082, as recorded in incident mapping that pinpoints the hamlet within the South Hebron Hills.[2]

History and archaeology

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The broader Masafer Yatta landscape (Arabic masāfer, “travelling”) has long supported semi-sedentary pastoralism adapted to caves and seasonal grazing. Communities like Haribat a-Nabi historically relied on cisterns and dryland fields and maintained kin ties with nearby hamlets.[1]

Legal–administrative context

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Following the June 1967 war, the area came under Israeli occupation and was later included in Area C. In May 2022, the Supreme Court of Israel (HCJ 413/13 Abu ‘Aram) dismissed petitions against expulsion within the 918 firing zone, a judgment widely criticized by legal scholars and human-rights experts.[3][4] OCHA summarizes the resulting planning regime and risks of forcible transfer for Masafer Yatta communities, including access restrictions and demolitions.[1]

Access and services

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  • Road access: The hamlet is reached via agricultural tracks connecting nearby Masafer Yatta communities; humanitarian sources describe recurrent access constraints typical of firing-zone localities.[1]
  • Water and power: Households rely on rain-fed cisterns, trucked water and small solar arrays, consistent with regional patterns.[1]
  • Local planning and structures: A community profile compiled by Bimkom lists Haribat a-Nabi as an Area C locality in the Hebron district, with about nine resident families and mixed building typologies (tents, tin shacks, stone rooms).[5]

Population and livelihoods

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According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the hamlet's recorded population was 50 in 1997 and 41 in 2017.[6] A Bimkom field profile lists around **9 families** living in the community.[5] Livelihoods are based on mixed herding (goats and sheep), dryland farming and seasonal grazing, as documented for Masafer Yatta hamlets.[1]

Notable incidents

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  • 11 August 2024: B’Tselem documented settlers attacking a Palestinian house in Haribat a-Nabi with stones and pepper-spraying the owner.[2]
  • 11 March 2025: Ma’an News reported several injuries after settler attacks on residents in the hamlet.[7]
  • 14 August 2025: WAFA reported that Israeli forces arrested three residents during a settler incursion into Haribat a-Nabi.[8]

In late 2025, Palestinian news agencies reported a sustained campaign of raids, demolitions, and settler violence targeting the residents of Huraybat al-Nabi and the surrounding area. According to Quds Press, Israeli military forces carried out repeated incursions into the community, during which soldiers beat unarmed civilians, seized property, and imposed movement restrictions on residents.[9]

Al-Quds likewise reported large-scale searches of homes, detentions, and what local officials described as intimidation meant to pressure residents to leave the area.[10] According to PalToday, Israeli forces demolished residential shelters and small industrial structures, displacing families and destroying livestock facilities essential to the village’s livelihood.[11]

The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation reported Israeli settler attacks against the civilian population, stating that settlers erected a tent near the community, harassed residents, and attempted to expand an outpost in a manner that restricted Palestinian access to land in Masafer Yatta. Local observers noted that these actions took place near settlement outposts considered illegal under international and Israeli law.[12] WAFA further reported that Israeli forces issued demolition notices, destroyed additional structures, confiscated equipment, and tightened restrictions on grazing areas, measures that the agency said inflicted significant humanitarian and economic harm on unarmed residents of the community.[13]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Fact sheet: Masafer Yatta communities at risk of forcible transfer". UN OCHA. 6 July 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Settler Violence = State Violence – incident map (entry: Haribat a-Nabi, 11 Aug 2024)". B’Tselem. 11 August 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  3. ^ Ben-Naftali, Orna; Diamond, Eitan (2023). "No Place for Palestinians: The Israeli High Court of Justice Fades Out of the Global Community of Courts – The Farcical Tragedy of the 2022 Judgment on Masafer Yatta" (PDF). Boston University International Law Journal. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  4. ^ "UN experts alarmed by Israel High Court ruling on Masafer Yatta and risk of imminent forcible transfer". OHCHR. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Haribat al-Nabi". Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  6. ^ "Haribat an-Nabi (Al-Khalil)". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  7. ^ "إصابات- مستوطنون يعتدون على مواطنين في مسافر يطا". Ma’an News Agency. 11 March 2025. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  8. ^ "الاحتلال يعتقل 3 مواطنين خلال هجوم للمستعمرين في مسافر يطا". WAFA. 14 August 2025. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  9. ^ "تقرير: اعتداءات الاحتلال في خربة النبي". Quds Press (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  10. ^ "تغطية الأحداث في جنوب الخليل". Al-Quds (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  11. ^ "الاحتلال يهدم مساكن ومنشآت صناعية". PalToday (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  12. ^ "مستوطنون ينصبون خيمة في مسافر يطا". PBC (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  13. ^ "إخطارات وعمليات هدم في مسافر يطا". WAFA (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-12-05.
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