Allon Schewut

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Allon Schewut
אַלּוֹן שְׁבוּת
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Allon Schwut 2009
Territory : West Bank
( Judea and Samaria )
Regional administration : Gush Etzion
Founded : 1970
Coordinates : 31 ° 39 '  N , 35 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 31 ° 39 '17 "  N , 35 ° 7' 40"  E
Height : 959 m
 
Residents : 3,180 (2016)
Allon Schewut (Palestinian Territories)
Allon Schewut
Allon Schewut

Allon Schewut ( Hebrew אלון שבות), also Al (l) on Schwut , is an Israeli settlement in Judea . It was founded in 1970 and is located southwest of Jerusalem between the cities of Bethlehem and Hebron at an altitude of 959 m above sea level .

Allon Shevut is administered by the Gush Etzion Regional Council and serves as the regional center for the Gush Etzion communities. In 2016 Allon Schewut had 3180 inhabitants. The settlement is 4.6 kilometers east of the Green Line and west of the barrier fence .

International organizations consider the Israeli settlements in the territories occupied since 1967 to be illegal under applicable international law ( IV. Geneva Convention ). However, Israel denies that it is occupied territory, in which the IVth Geneva Convention is valid.

Surname

Allon Schewut means "oak of return" and refers to an oak tree near the city that embodies the longing for the return of the Jews expelled in 1948 by the Jordanian Arab Legion from Gush Etzion, a Jewish settlement block. The oak is part of the emblem of the Gush Etzion regional council and serves as a symbol of renewal and durability.

history

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Allon Schewut was founded in 1970 as a community and service center for families associated with the Hesder Yeshiva Har Etzion, which was being established locally . For years, Allon Schewut housed the only clinic, the only grocery store, the only post office and the only bank in the area.

The oak after which the city is named.

The residents of Allon Schewut are mostly nationally religious Jews who attend the Har Etzion Yeshiva, the Herzog College for Teachers and the Zomet Institute for Technological-Religious Research and their relatives. There are also some families and descendants of the residents who were captured and driven out after the settlement surrendered after the Kfar Etzion massacre on May 13, 1948 by soldiers of the Arab Legion and members of local militias. The houses were looted and burned.

In November 1998, the Giwat HaHisch outpost, which is also illegal under Israeli law (גבעת החי"ש) built. It consists of over thirty mobile housing units and is partly inhabited by recently immigrated Inca Jews from Trujillo , Peru .

In 2000, a second residential area doubled the size of the city to meet the growing demand for housing. There were many newcomers among the newcomers , especially from the United States of America.

On June 12, 2014, the three Talmud students Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel were kidnapped and then murdered at an intersection in the south of the settlement, a stop for hitchhikers . On November 10, 2014, a Palestinian attacked three Israelis with a knife at the same breakpoint. A 26-year-old was killed.

Archaeological finds

Archaeological finds in Giwat HaHisch, which date back to around 300 BC. BC, prove the early settlement of the area. Other finds date from the late Byzantine era, including a mosaic floor. Allon Schewut is on the ancient road to Jerusalem, which is marked by Roman milestones . Many ancient ritual baths are scattered in the surrounding hills. They were believed to have been used by pilgrims on their way to the Jerusalem Temple , which was about a day's journey away. There are also antique grape and olive presses as well as cisterns, carved out of the natural rock, which document a long agricultural history.

geography

Allon Schewut lies at a good 950 m above sea level. NN in the northern Judean Hills . The summers are warm and dry, the winters are cold with precipitation and sometimes a few centimeters of snow.

The city is located a few hundred meters west of the Gush Etzion junction, where Route 60 , the north-south connection, which roughly follows the watershed from Nazareth via Jerusalem to Beer Sheva , and Route 367, which goes west into the Elah Valley descends to the Israeli coastal plain and to Tel Aviv .

Allon Schewut lies on a northwest-southeast axis along a ridge, with a gently sloping plain to the south and steep gorges in the north. The Giwat HaHisch outpost is located on the extension of the ridge that borders a gorge northeast of the city.

Land question

According to a report by the Israeli organization Shalom Achshaw , 24.13 percent of the land on which the settlement was built is privately owned by Palestinians , which violates Israeli law. Since a 1979 ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court , no Israeli settlements have been allowed to be built on privately owned Palestinian land. However, the Israeli military administration in the Occupied Territories, on whose statistics the report is based, denies that the report accurately reflects the reality.

Web links

Commons : Allon Schwut  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, accessed April 21, 2018
  2. ^ Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilians in Time of War. (PDF; 626 kB) Federal authorities of the Swiss Confederation, August 12, 1949, accessed on May 10, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Peter Gasser, Nils Melzer: Humanitarian international law. An introduction . 2nd revised edition. Nomos / Schulthess Verlag, Baden-Baden / Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7255-6358-6 , p. 137-143, especially 142 f .
  4. ^ History of Kfar Etzion . kfar-etzion.co.il. Archived from the original on October 10, 2006. Retrieved July 26, 2012.
  5. ^ Benny Morris: 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. Yale University Press 2008, 170
  6. ↑ Givat Hahish. (No longer available online.) Peace Now, archived from the original on October 13, 2013 ; Retrieved November 25, 2011 .
  7. ^ How 90 Peruvians became the latest Jewish settlers. In: The Guardian. Retrieved November 28, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Nefesh B'Nefesh - Aliyah: Live the dream . nbn.org.il. Archived from the original on February 25, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  9. ↑ Attack: Young Israeli murdered with a knife. In: Israelnetz .de. November 10, 2014, accessed December 30, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Assassin stabs young Israeli woman. In: Spiegel online. November 10, 2014, accessed December 30, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Alon Shvut. (No longer available online.) Peace Now, archived from the original on October 13, 2013 ; Retrieved November 25, 2011 .
  12. ^ Peace Now's Settlement Watch Team: Breaking the Law in the West Bank. One Violation Leads to Another: Israeli Settlement Building on Private Palestinian Property. (PDF; 388 kB) Peace Now, October 2006, p. 24 , accessed on June 25, 2012 (English).
  13. ^ Rory McCarthy: 39% of Israeli settlements 'on private land'. In: The Guardian . November 22, 2006, accessed May 9, 2012 .
  14. ^ Nadav Shragai: Blow to settlement movement. In: Haaretz . November 21, 2006, accessed May 9, 2012 .
  15. ↑ Nadav Shragai: Peace Now: 40 percent of settlements' land is owned by private Palestinians. In: Haaretz . November 22, 2006, accessed May 9, 2012 .