As-Samu

:"This article details the Palestinian village in the West Bank, for the French hospital-based emergency medical service see SAMU. For the American professional wrestler, see Samula Anoa'i."Infobox Palestinian Authority muni
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as-Samu or es-Samu' ( _ar. السموع) is a town in the Hebron Governorate of the West Bank, 12 kilometers south of the city of Hebron. as-Samu is 60 kilometers south-west of Jerusalem. The area is a hilly, rocky area cut by some wadis. The Armistice Demarcation Line (ADL, Green line) runs generally east to west approximately five kilometers south of as Samu. The village of as Samu is located on twin hills with a wadi varying from shallow to deep between them. [ [http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/59c118f065c4465b852572a500625fea/af3bf4fc576922b60525672e0050bea5!OpenDocument UN Doc] ] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics the town had a population of 18,000 in 2006. [ [http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop11.aspx Projected Mid -Year Population] for Hebron Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics] It has been claimed that this was the Biblical town of Emmaus, but this is not universally accepted.

Operation Shredder

Israel launched a full-scale military operation against the town, which resulted in the deaths of fifteen Jordanian soldiers and three Jordanian civilians; fifty-four other soldiers and ninety-six civilians were wounded. The commander of the Israeli paratroop battalion, Colonel Yoav Shaham, was killed and ten other Israeli soldiers were wounded.

eparation Barrier

It was reported in 2005 that 10,000 dunums of land in the towns of As Samu, Yatta and ad-Dhahiriya near Hebron were to be seized by the Israeli Defense Force for the construction of the separation wall. [ [http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/db942872b9eae454852560f6005a76fb/56cecb65d897395185256fe800625629!OpenDocument UN Doc] Chronological Review of Events Relating to the Question of Palestine; Monthly Media Monitoring Review March 2005]

Crime

Palestinian sources have alleged that settler violence from the nearby Israeli settlements of Ma'on and Asa'el has prevented them from accessing their fields. [ [http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/db942872b9eae454852560f6005a76fb/2c04ae1a24b646f58525700600661080!OpenDocument 14 May:] Farmers and shepherds from Yatta and As Samu towns were denied access to their land by settlers from Ma'on settlement.] [ [http://reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/EDIS-7GNQ87?OpenDocument Relief web.] According to Palestinian sources, a 30-year-old Palestinian man from the town of As-Samu' sustained multiple bodily injuries when a group of settlers beat him and dragged him to the nearby settlement outpost of Asael. The settlers then tied him to an electricity pole where the assault continued.]

Notes

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