Israel demolishes homes and classroom in West Bank village

Harriet Sherwood

In a bleak but beautiful landscape of undulating stony hills I watched a group of Palestinian schoolchildren take their lessons yesterday in the open air next to a heap of rubble that, until this week, was their classroom.

This is the village of Dkaika, about as far south in the West Bank as you can get. It's a community of around 300 people, without electricity or running water, whose days are spent tending their herds of goats and sheep and trying not to attract the attention of nearby Jewish settlers. Guardian.co.uk

(Nayfeh Ka'abneh and a friend. Photograph: Harriet Sherwood for the Guardian)