Children of a Palestinian family of cave-dwellers play and work at their home near the dismantled Jewish settlement of Havat Maon in the Mount Hebron region of the occupied West Bank, 19 September 2007. Mahmud Hamamda still lives in the cave his grandfather chiselled out of a rocky hillside in the remote hills of the southern West Bank more than 100 years ago. But above ground Jewish settlements now huddle on nearby hills, his grazing land has become a special military zone, and Hamamda, a poor shepherd, has had to defy the Israeli occupation so he can remain in his underground home.
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