Tag: Masafer Yatta
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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…
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When Shepherding Your Flock Becomes a Crime
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 have followed on their traditional lands in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills since Ottoman…
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Israeli settlers/soldiers abduct a Palestinian, destroy and steal property in Khallet Al-Dabaa
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 5 people. The aggressors abducted Salah, a Palestinian man, father of 4 young children. They…
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Wadi Tiran: Facing Ethnic Cleansing, Longing For Home
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 Wadi Tiran has been repeatedly “visited” by either settlers or soldiers, or both (since distinguishing…
