Families of ancient Palestinian village struggle to survive settler attacks
Al-Monitor spent the day with Muhannad Salah and his family, some of the few remaining residents of the historic Shushahla village in Area C that has struggled to survive amid settlement expansion.
On the road between Hebron and East Jerusalem, 5 kilometers from Bethlehem, the ancient village of Shushahla sits on a high mountain hill, defying settlement ambitions and the surrounding settlements of Efrat, Sidi Boaz, Eli Azar and Nefi Daniel.
In a house made of stacked stones and covered with tin ceiling panels, the three-member Palestinian family of Muhannad Salah, 39, lives in the village without any electricity or water supplies, let alone any paved roads.
The village residents abandoned it in the 1970s due to the continuous Israeli restrictions.
Shushahla is located in Area C of the West Bank, which is under Israeli control and accounts for 61% of the West Bank, where Israel maintained almost complete control in the wake of the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip known as Oslo II concluded between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1995.
