Al Bowereh

Al Bowereh or Al-Bweireh, also known as Aqabat Injeleh, is a Palestinian village located just east of Hebron. It is situated adjacent to and north of the Israeli settlement Givat Harsina. The village is occupied by Israel since 1967, together with the rest of the West Bank.

Al Bowereh is located at the northern edge of the Baqa'a Valley, a few kilometers east of Hebron City. It is sandwiched between the Israeli settlement Givat Harsina in the south and Israeli outposts in the north and the east. East of Al Bowereh runs the Israeli bypass road Route 60.

According to the PCBS, the estimated population of Al Bowereh was about 780 in 2011, but Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) mentioned a number of 340 people in 2012, while ARIJ gave a number of 180 in 2009. The existence of Al Bowereh is endangered due to on-going settlement expansion and demolition orders for almost all of the remaining homes in Al Bowereh. Al Bowereh is owned by all members of the neighbourhood.

In 1985, Israeli settlers started the building of Givat Harsina between Al Bowereh and Kiryat Arba on Palestinian lands belonging to the members of the Jaber and Al Bakri clans in Hebron City. In 1995, the Israeli bypass road 60 was built through the Palestinian farm lands located east of Harsina.

In 2009, settlers started building the outpost "Hill 18", also named "Hill 26", "Mitzpe Avihai", "Karmei Netanel" and "Hammer Lot", between the Harsina settlement and Al Bowereh. The Hill 18 outpost has a number of times been built, evacuated and rebuilt. Hill 26 is built on land belonging to the Palestinian Ja'abar family, expropriated by the Israeli government. The outpost was earlier dismantled in 1999. In the meantime, however, it had been consistently inhabited by settlers and protected by the IDF. The area was declared a "closed military zone", forcing peace activists of Ta'ayush to evacuate. Hill 26 is mentioned in the 2005 Sasson Report. It is located 230 meter from Givat Harsina and 1.6 kilometer from Kiryat Arba and borders Al Bowereh to the south.

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