According to B Tselem, about 2,700 people live in about 20 herding communities in or in the vicinity of areas in the Jordan Valley that have been defined as firing zones.
The people of Khirbet Humsah support themselves mainly by raising sheep. They are originally from a-Samu, a village in the southern West Bank, and began migrating to the northern Jordan Valley in the 1970s, after their grazing land or access to it was reduced, and their water sources blocked as a result of settlement construction and prohibitions issued by the military.
In 1948, a few of the village s families lost much of their land, which was on the other side of the pre-1967 demarcation line. The Civil Administration recently offered to move the residents of Khirbet Humsah to an alternative location that is not in a firing zone, but they refused. In February, after most of the structures in the village were destroyed, residents told Haaretz that officials told them that if they moved 15 kilometers (9 miles) to
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