Tag Archives: Settler violence

Acts of harassment and terror are a daily fact of life for residents of Masafer Yatta, a collection of rural hamlets at the southern end of the West Bank. One example is Mohammed Abed’s family in Um Darit, where they ...

27 February 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta On February 25th, armed illegal Israeli settlers and border police approached and violently argued with Palestinian shepherds in Al-Rakeez, Masafer Yatta, driving them away from their land. Two Palestinian shepherds ...

21 February 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta On Tuesday, February 20th, armed illegal Israeli settlers attacked a shepherding family and their sheep near the villages of Al Jawaya and Tuwani, in Masafer Yatta. The settlers reportedly let ...

They came covered in black and wearing ski masks. Thirty extremist ideological settlers, armed with clubs and tear gas, invaded the Armenian Quarter’s ‘Cow’s Garden’ (Goveroun Bardez) in the Old City and attacked members of the Armenian community.

8 December 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta, Occupied West Bank In the morning of December 8th, around 50 soldiers/settlers, most of whom wore masks, invaded the Palestinian village of Khallet Al-Dabaa, in Masafer Yatta, and violently attacked ...

8 December 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied East Jerusalem      Marking the first night of Hanukkah, on December 7, around 150 ultra-nationalist, Kahane terrorist linked extremist settlers demanding “full Jewish control” of Al Aqsa Mosque shouted racist abuse and ...

7 December 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta, Occupied West Bank In just over one week, several Palestinian family homes were relegated to fields of rubble after occupation army bulldozers invaded several villages including al Deirat, Umm Lasafa ...

During the home invasions, the settlers committed violent assaults of Palestinian residents, traumatized children, insulted the women of the home and stole sheep from two Mleihat residents. 

2 November 2023 | Masafer Yatta| International Solidarity Movement The testimony from a volunteer in Masafer Yatta, October 28.   One day in the life of … … three villages in the South Hebron Hills ; Tuwani, Shi’b Al Batin ...

Masafer Yatta | International Solidarity Movement Colonial violence and ethnic cleansing is quickly escalating in Masafer Yatta, a rural region south of Hebron, in the West Bank. Settler militias are terrorizing Palestinians by invading their villages during pogroms, armed with ...