Then
10-year-old Zahur Said and her friends were on their way to school last
Monday, September 1st, Israeli authorities had already been surveying
the area for hours.  When she returned, 300 square meters of crumbled
concrete and mangled steel was all that remained of the Al Rayyan Dairy
Factory in Northern Hebron.

For three years, the factory built in partnership by the Islamic
Charitable Society in Hebron (ICS) and Al Rayyan Company has provided a
sustainable source of revenue for two orphanages run by the ICS, as well
as aiding ten different schools in the area.  It also supplied products
like yogurt, milk and cheese to the organizations and families it
benefits.

The factory received demolition orders two months ago on June
20th during the Israeli military’s Operation Brother’s Keeper.  Israeli
authorities confiscated most of its working machinery two weeks later on
July 2nd.  The ICS filed a case with the Israeli military court in the
West Bank and had a court date scheduled for September 7th, 2014.  Six
days before the case was to be heard, the factory was demolished, with
ICS and Al Rayyan sustaining more than two million dollars in losses.

– See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/military-demolishes-benefitting