Tag: Masafer Yatta
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Masafer Yatta: Shi’b Al Butm villagers determined to stay on their land
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, and a settler outpost sprouted by the main settlement even closer, very near the houses…
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We will not be intimidated: Statement and call to action about the attacks on our group in the Israeli media
This week the International Solidarity Movement has been targeted in the Israeli media. Articles have appeared naming and showing pictures and videos of ISM Volunteers and Israeli activists accusing them of spreading ‘a false campaign against settler violence’ and of being Hamas supporters and ‘Nazi helpers’. In the current atmosphere of violence against dissent this…
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Waiting for the sunrise in Susiya: messages from Masafer Yatta
This is a story based on texts exchanged over recent days with an international activist part of a group staying in Masafer Yatta, in occupied Palestine. They arrived recently in Susiya and they are staying in a homestead which is some distance away from other families living in the area. About 40 families with 100…
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One day in Masafer Yatta
2 November 2023 | Masafer Yatta| International Solidarity Movement The testimony from a volunteer in Masafer Yatta, October 28. One day in the life of … … three villages in the South Hebron Hills ; Tuwani, Shi’b Al Batin and Khalet Al Dabaa. Villages that I’ve come to know over the past fortnight and…
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Call to Action – Embassies of Ireland, UK, Belgium and Mexico: act now to stop the violence in Masafer Yatta
URGENT CALL TO ACTION!! We ask people around the world to pressure the governments of UK, Ireland, Belgium and Mexico to take immediate action to stop the attacks happening in Masafer Yatta, Palestine. As the world’s eyes are rightly upon the Israeli genocide taking place in Gaza, many horrific episodes of ethnic cleansing of Palestinian…
