On 24 March 2007 Israeli authorities demolished a house built without an Israeli permit . The case was fought in an appeal , reaching the Israeli Supreme Court , which confirmed the verdict . Demonstrations ensued . On 22 June 2007 Halhul resident Shadi Rajeh ' Abdallah al-Mtur was shot dead while walking to a grocery store contiguous to an Israeli checkpoint , after failing to obey an order to stop . He did not have an ID card . On 6 October 2011 , two men from Halhul were arrested on charges of having murdered Asher and Yonatan Palmer as a result of a stone-throwing incident near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba on 23 September 2011 . In December 2011 , the UNDP decided to assist in establishing a mental health center in Halhul . On 20 November 2012 , a Halhul resident , Hamdi Muhammad Jawad Musa al-Fallah , was shot by IDF soldiers after aiming a laser pen at them during a clash between the soldiers and local Palestinians near the Halhul-Hebron bridge on Route 35
Asher and Yonatan Palmer
Deaths of Asher and Yonatan Palmer
Halhul