Author: ISM Media
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More Attacks on Shepherds in Masafer Yatta
24 February 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta On Wednesday, February 21st, a group of armed and masked settlers and occupation army soldiers violently attacked a group of Palestinian women, children and men grazing their sheep in Humra close to A-Tuwani, in Masafer Yatta. The soldiers aggressively drove the shepherds out of their…
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Swedish Human Rights Defender on Hunger Strike after Denied Entry and Detained by Israeli Authorities
23 February 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, February 21, 2024 – Israeli authorities at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport have denied entry to a Swedish foreign national and Palestinian human rights defender arbitrarily citing “Public security or public safety or public order considerations”. Samira Khoshbakht, 42, a textile artist and craft…
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Illegal Settlers Attack Shepherding family in Masafer Yatta
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 their dog loose on the sheep, injuring three, discharged a weapon, and hit a child.…
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Continued Settler Appropriation of Community Garden in At-Tuwani
17 February 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta On February 14, for the second time in 3 days, a settler from an illegal outpost west of Ma’on settlement, entered At-Tuwani, in Masafer Yatta, to do illegal drilling and construction work in the Youth of Sumud garden. Five heavily armed and masked settlers in…
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Wadi Tiran: The Struggle for Shepherding
13 February 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta In the secluded village of Tiran, two shepherd families report increasing harassment by settler shepherds from the nearby outpost “Havat Yehuda”. Tiran is one of many hamlets south of Al Khalil (Hebron), known collectively as Masafer Yata. Like other villages in the area, Tiran is…
