Adel al-Tell, a young Palestinian man who lives with his large family in a dilapidated cave in Khirbet Zanuta village south of the West Bank city of Hebron, uses TikTok to document his extraordinary cave life, footage shows from May 23.

In al-Tell's videos, his families are seen milking goats, making tabuns (a clay oven used in parts of the Middle East), herding sheep, and above all, recording Israeli settlers' attacks on local Palestinians.

Al-Tell now has more than 60,000 followers on TikTok, and the contents he has published in recent months alone have received as many as 1.5 million likes.

Al-Tell and his family are among some 450 people living in Khirbet Zanuta village, where the majority of the residents live off sheep grazing and the food from the poultry and goats they raise.

Under the Oslo accords signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Israeli government in 1993, the West Bank region was divided into three areas: Area A under the Palestinian control, Area B under Palestinian civil administration and Israeli security control, and Area C under full Israeli control, which comprises about 60 percent of the total territory of the region.

The Khirbet Zanuta village is located in Area C and has been slated for demolition by the Israeli army in favor of what Palestinians call the expansion of Jewish settlements.

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Hebron - 23 May 2022. Adel al-Tell, a young Palestinian man who lives with his large family in a dilapidated cave in Khirbet Zanuta village south of the West Bank city of Hebron, uses TikTok to document his extraordinary cave life.

SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Adel al-Tell.

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In al-Tell's TikTok short videos, his families are seen milking goats, making tabuns (a clay oven used in parts of the Middle East), herding sheep, and above all, recording Israeli settlers' attacks on local Palestinians. Al-Tell now has more than 60,000 followers on TikTok, and the contents he has published in recent months alone have received as many as more than 1.5 million likes.

Al-Tell and his family are among some 450 people living in Khirbet Zanuta village, where the majority of the residents live off sheep grazing and the food from the poultry and goats they raise.


Under the Oslo accords signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Israeli government in 1993, the West Bank region was divided into three areas: Area A under the Palestinian control, Area B under Palestinian civil administration and Israeli security control, and Area C under full Israeli control, which comprises about 60 percent of the total territory of the region.

The Khirbet Zanuta village is located in Area C and has been slated for demolition by the Israeli army in favor of what Palestinians call the expansion of Jewish settlements.


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