Sho’eva Colony

Sho’eva is a colony located in central occupied Palestine, west of Jerusalem. It was originally established as a labor village in 1950 by immigrants from Yemen, on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Saris, which was destroyed in 1948. In 1952, the settlement planning authorities determined that the settlement had been established mistakenly and demanded that the settlers evacuate. When they refused, water supplies and other essential services were reduced in an attempt to pressure them to leave. Although the settlement was closed in 1952, it was re-established in 1959. As of 2022, Sho’eva had 597 settlers. Source: Colony website