Sansana (Meitar Crossing), South Hebron Hills

The parking area at the checkpoint was full. The watery area  in the picture below is not a pastoral corner under the separation wall, but a sewage lake that is difficult to get rid of the odors it spreads for many hours.

We left with a car loaded with things that Semadar had collected.

On Route 317, immediately after the Meitar industrial zone, Muhammad's hawk eyes spotted buildings. We decided to go in and check out what this place is. The place was deserted. Some buildings and a bush and an oven with a pair of shoes in front of it and a baby chair next to it. It is difficult to know if it is a place that is hastily abandoned or if it is a place that is used for residence only during grazing.

On the way, we entered Amar from Maktal Umm Salem to check on what had happened after the army's visit two weeks earlier when they confiscated the family's tent, which in the laundered language of the occupation was called "Iron Constructions." The army has not returned yet, but from time to time a jeep, probably from the Regavim Association, arrives and observes them.

Amar himself was in the pasture but I was happy to see some of the children in the family who on normal days when there is a school, are in Samu' with their grandparents. They too were happy to see us and happy for the things we brought.

Nada, which means "dew", really enjoyed the white fan.

Little Adam still looked terrified at the sight of the strangers arriving in the car but the bigger ones were happy with the things we brought them.

We continued to Abu Safi. He had just returned with the tractor from the field with some watermelons and pumpkins. This year, due to the severe drought, he grew vegetables only for the needs of the family and indeed all the girls in the family helped unload the produce and the 13-year-old Ranin which is already big enough shepherd the flock. The other girls helped unload the things we brought them but it seems to me that the great joy was with the necklaces  they received.

We sat with Abu Safi outside, here he feels free. We were served the best tomatoes I have ever eaten.

Of course we returned to the water problem which is always more severe in summer, but this year due to the lack of rains, it is very severe. According to Abu Safi, a three-cubic-meter water tank costs more than NIS 100 and another three-hour round trip. In the well, which supplies water to the sheep there is almost no more water and in the summer that has just begun, they consume a water tank every day, in a quick calculation, about NIS 3,000 for water per month. Do you know of  an Israeli family that spends such a sum on water?

Rania showed me on Instagram a painting that she had painted and it really caught my eye. I would call it a "dream".