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…
