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 ...
Read More »Zanuta: The Return
On November, 29th 2023, International Day of Solidarity with Palestine, Palestinian villagers forcefully displaced from their lands through threats of murder by Israeli settlers, returned to their village, Zanuta.
Read More »“Isn’t it enough?”: Water in Um Al-Khair
Villagers in Um Al-Khair have been repeatedly prevented from bringing their sheep to graze on the outskirts of the village. In one such incident several days ago, settlers attacked the Palestinian shepherds, and together with Israeli police and civil administration officials claimed that the village’s water infrastructure was on settler land, and threatened that the residents of Um Al-Khair would be prevented access.
Read More »Human Rights Defender Accused of Supporting Terror
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.
Read More »International Human Rights Monitor Arrested During Destruction of Palestinian Home
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.
Read More »The Light of Truth
On November 20th, 2023, several of us, Palestinians and internationals, responded to document settlers and soldiers confiscating a young person’s phone and threatening and harassing their household in Al-Rakiz, at the outskirts of Tuwani. The motley bunch of 10-12 local ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Revenge attacks in Masafer Yatta
16 October, 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta In the week since Israel began its onslaught on Gaza, soldiers and settlers have bulldozed homes, carried out night raids and attacked Palestinians across the Masafer Yatta region. Occupation ...
Read More »Settlers attack in Tuwani, Masafer Yatta
Yesterday afternoon, 12th of October, settlers attacked the village of Tuwani, in the south of Hebron, assaulting the residents, injuring one. The settlers shot live ammunition in the direction of the Palestinians and internationalists in the village. They also raised ...
Read More »Watch: Israeli soldiers harass Palestinian teenager and try to intimidate internationalists in Masafer Yatta
On August 10th, three israeli soldiers harassed Abud Huraini, a palestinian teenager from the village At-Tuwani, in the region of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, while he was brining out his flock of goats to graze. The three ...
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