Emad Husheyah and his nine children live inside a cave. It's dark, cramped and, in his words, dangerous.
He worries constantly the cave will collapse and kill his family.
But the 39-year-old father felt he had no other option following the demolition of his family's house by the Israeli military.
"It's not very safe in this cave … it's been here for thousands of years," he says.
"There is no concrete to hold it together, or pillars for supporting the ceiling.
"During the rain and the snow, this could be a threat, it could collapse."
The Husheyahs live in a remote desert village that is part of a region known as Masafer Yatta, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The residents of Masafer Yatta have been fighting in courts for decades against Israel's decision to declare the area a military firing zone.
The declaration means the Palestinians who called the area home are considered "illegal" residents.
Earlier this year, Israel's highest court sided with the military and paved the way for the eviction of more than 1,000 people.
Since then, multiple homes have been knocked down or demolished by the Israeli military as it enforces the ruling.
Residents say they have nowhere else to go and have retreated into nearby caves to stay on the land they believe is theirs.
"We lived for one month outdoors until I managed to clean the cave," Mr Husheyah says.
"The cave was full of snakes, scorpions, filth and rats. It was very frightful."
At night, some of his children sleep inside the cave on pieces of foam, pulled out onto the rocky floor.
The older children are forced to sleep outside on a makeshift platform, built by their dad to keep them protected from snakes and other threats. One of Mr Husheyah's daughters was recently stung by a scorpion.
"We have little left, what future do my children have?" he says.
Human rights experts say forced evictions could be a war crime
About 1,200 Palestinians, including 500 children, could be moved off the land at Masafer Yatta.
Local and international human rights groups say it would be the largest eviction of Palestinians from land they claim is theirs in decades.
Special rapporteurs from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have sounded the alarm, warning that any forced evictions would be a breach of international humanitarian and human rights laws, which could amount to a war crime.
Israel has not responded publicly to these statements, but has long accused the UNHRC of bias, most recently in relation to an ongoing inquiry into the Gaza conflict.
Israeli authorities have controlled the land at Masafer Yatta since capturing the West Bank during the Six-Day War in 1967.
The defence force first declared it a closed military zone in the 1980s. The Israeli army told the ABC the land was uninhabited at the time, and that the Palestinians in the area were not permanent residents.
Israel says the nomadic groups who farmed and tended their flocks in the area only settled in villages seasonally.
In 1999, the Israeli government issued eviction orders for those Palestinians still living in the area.
After decades of fighting, that case was finally decided earlier this year, with Israel's High Court ruling that Palestinian dwellers had not been permanent residents of the area when the declaration was made.
Masafer Yatta residents and Israeli rights groups say that many of the Palestinian families have been permanently living there since before Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
Regavim, an Israeli group that describes its role as fighting for the "protection of Israel's national lands" says Masafer Yatta is an important military asset.
"There was never anything there, there were never any people living there … until the late 1980s, after it was established as a military training ground by the state of Israel," Regavim's international director Naomi Kahn said.
"Under the Ottoman empire it was state land, under the Jordanian occupation it was state land, and therefore, under Israeli rule, it is state land."
Palestinians not giving up hope of remaining in Masafer Yatta
Among those residents who argue their ties to the land do predate the occupation are sheep farmer Mahmoud ali-Najjar and his family, who also moved into a cave after their home was demolished in early May.
"I was born in theses caves, in November 1955. I was born in that cave, over there," he says, pointing to his left.
"This land means everything to me, we inherited this from my parents and grandparents since 1,400 years ago."
His wife, Yusra Khalil Najjar, becomes emotional as she looks over the rubble that used to be her home.
"On the morning of the demolish day, we were not given any time to take our belongings out," she says.
"We thought [the military] were passing by, then they turned toward us, so we rushed and most of the furniture's left under the ruins.
"I feel like I'm having a heart attack."
The Israeli military says the homes built by Palestinians are illegal structures, because they were built without permits.
The Najjars have vowed to rebuild, even though there are no more legal avenues to fight the court ruling.
"I'm not giving up on my land," Ms Khalil Najjar says.
"Even if they come every day to demolish, we are not giving up."
