Tag Archives: Masafer Yatta

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 ...

17 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta Last night, illegal settlers burned a family car in Um Dhorit, in Masafer Yatta. They snuck onto the family’s land and set fire to the family only car in an ...

13 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta Israeli soldiers arresting a Palestinian woman. @ISM   Today in Susiya (Masafer Yatta), on the third day in Ramadan, a large number of IOF soldiers and armed settlers arrested a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...