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The Many Faces of Ethnic Cleansing and Land Grab
06 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta A few days ago, villagers of Khallet Adabaa stood at the edge of their village and watched two illegal Israeli settlers driving on motorbikes up and down the hills surrounding the village – all of it private Palestinian land. Earlier in the day, settlers…
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“We Have Suffered Too Much”: Friday Protests Continue in Kafr Qaduum
1 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Kafr Qaduum It is Friday, and the call to prayer is heard in the rural village of Kafr Qaduum, West of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank. The streets are quiet, empty except some children playing and a few cars heading early to the…
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Illegal Occupation and Power Abuse by Israeli Settlers in Masafer Yatta
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 were grazing their flocks at the top of a hill, where they have been recently…
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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…
