FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the morning of Friday, January 6th, the village of Jwaya, near Tuwani in the southern region of the West bank, awoke to find one hundred and twenty of their olive trees cut down. The trees were ...

Alison Russell, a Scottish-born Belgian citizen and Human Rights Defender, was detained by the Israeli occupation authorities while documenting the demolition of a house in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills of the occupied West Bank. She was deported after very perfunctory proceedings at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court.

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 ...

16 January 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta Muhammed being led away by IOF soldiers. Credit: ISM.   For the villagers of Khallet Al Dabaa, in Masafer Yatta, shepherding is a traditional way of life. One which they ...

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 ...

Today, on November 22nd, 2023 early in the morning, Israeli occupation forces bulldozed a family home in Sha’ab Al-Butum in the Yatta region of the occupied West Bank which has seen soaring levels of extremist settler and IOF violence against Palestinians and human rights defenders.  

20 November 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | South Hebron Hills Wadi Tiran is a good example, and sadly one of many, of Israel’s big plan to make Palestine the land without people. Over the last month, the community of ...

16 November 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta Shi’b Al Butm is a village on the side of one of the South Hebron Hills. It is  home to 18 Palestinian families with an illegal Israeli settlement close by, ...

UPDATED-14 November, 2023, Wadi Tiran in the occupied West Bank, Palestine Thanks to the efforts of human rights volunteers and their supporters, the inhabitants of the village of Wadi Tiran have survived another night. The inhabitants were given a 24 ...

13 November, 2023, Wadi Tiran in the occupied West Bank, Palestine The village of Wadi Tiran was given a 24 hour warning, “leave or we kill everyone”.  Residents, along with a handful of international and Israeli human rights defenders, are ...