Masafer Yatta

Israeli soldiers accompany Palestinian students heading back home to the village of Tuba, at the end of their school day in the village of A-Tuwani, as they walk on a two-kilometer dirt road by the Israeli settlement of Maon, West Bank, September 28, 2021. (Oren Ziv)

In Masafer Yatta, teachers like me can’t guarantee our students an education

With schools facing demolition orders and soldiers detaining students and teachers for hours, obstacles to education are becoming insurmountable.

By Awdah Hathaleen November 15, 2022

Hafez Hureini (center) during a hearing in Ofer Military Court, September 19, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Armed settlers assaulted a Palestinian man. Guess who’s in jail?

Hafez Hureini had both his arms broken by settlers while he was working on his land. Now he's in detention, while his attackers remain free.

By Oren Ziv September 19, 2022

Israeli settlers armed with a rifle and metal bars confront Palestinian farmers near the village of A-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills, occupied West Bank, September 13, 2022. (Screenshot from a video of the incident)

How Israeli media reported a ‘lynching’ that never happened

Armed Israeli settlers attacked a group of farmers, then told the media they were ambushed by 30 Palestinians. Here's what really happened.

By Basil Adra and Yuval Abraham September 15, 2022

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WATCH: Women of Masafer Yatta tell their stories of resistance

As Israel carries out its expulsions in the West Bank region, Palestinian women talk about what it means to face a state that targets them as an 'enemy.'

By Social TV August 29, 2022

Palestinians and Jewish activists from Israel and abroad work to build the Sumud Freedom Camp’s main tent in the village of Sarura, whose residents were forced out in the 1980s and 1990s, South Hebron Hills, occupied West Bank, May 19, 2017. (Activestills/Ahmad Al-Bazz)

Demolishing our community center won’t destroy our resistance

'Youth of Sumud' supports Palestinian steadfastness against the occupation in Masafer Yatta and across the West Bank. And that scares Israel.

By Sameeha Hureini August 24, 2022

Settlers, under the guise of Israeli security forces, hold a Tisha B'av prayer service in the middle of the Palestinian village of A-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills, August 7, 2022. (Omri Eran-Vardi)

Why did the army shut down a Palestinian village? So settlers could pray in it

Israeli soldiers blocked all movement into and out of A-Tuwani except for settlers, while forcing Palestinian residents into their homes at gunpoint.

By Ali Awad August 17, 2022

Israeli authorities demolish a tent in the West Bank area of Masafer, near the city of Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, on November 25, 2020. (Wissam Hashlamon/Flash90)

This Israeli forbids Palestinians from building. He lives in an illegal outpost

Meet the inspector who prevents Palestinians in Masafer Yatta from building on their land while living in a home Israel says was built illegally.

By Yuval Abraham July 28, 2022

Mahmoud Awad in his village of Tuba in Masafer Yatta, West Bank. (Emily Glick)

The scars that don’t heal in Masafer Yatta

Palestinians share the stories behind the physical scars inflicted by Israeli settlers and soldiers, of their struggles with survival and grief, and of relearning their bodies in the face of unending violence.

By Ali Awad and Emily Glick July 27, 2022

U.S. president Joe Biden during a welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv for his first official visit to Israel since becoming president, July 13, 2022. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

The trip Biden should have taken, but didn’t

What would the president's itinerary look like if he decided to meet with Palestinians, including U.S. citizens, targeted by Israel's policies?

By Rina Rosenberg (Jabareen) July 14, 2022

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid greets President Joe Biden at Ben Gurion Airport during the latter's first official visit to Israel as U.S. president, July 13, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

The bloody legacy of ‘shared values’

Israel's 'unbreakable bond' with the U.S. means Biden will do little more on his trip than pay lip service to two states while continuing to support apartheid.

By Hagai El-Ad July 13, 2022

A Palestinian boy on a donkey looks at Israeli army vehicles as they park during an Israeli military training in the northern Jordan valley, West Bank, on December 8, 2016. (Keren Manor/Activestills)

Classified document reveals IDF ‘firing zones’ built to give land to settlers

In a top-secret meeting held in 1979, revealed here for the first time, then-Agricultural Minister Ariel Sharon explained that firing zones were meant to create 'land reserves' for settlements, as part of his larger plan of establishing 'ethnic borders' between Jews and Palestinians.

By Yuval Abraham July 11, 2022

Israeli soldiers push Jewish American activists during a demonstration against the expulsion of Masafer Yatta. (Emily Glick)

By staying silent on Masafer Yatta, Biden is green lighting forced population transfer

As American Jews, we must insist that the protection of Masafer Yatta is necessary for a thriving future for all between the river and the sea.

By Davida Ginsberg July 10, 2022

Israeli soldiers load the belonging of the Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta onto trucks as the residents are expelled from their homes, January 1, 2000. (B'Tselem)

Israel expelled my father from Masafer Yatta 20 years ago. Now it’s happening again

More than two decades have passed since my father was first kicked out of his home. Now that the Supreme Court approved his second expulsion, I spoke to him about how the decision fits into our family’s story of resistance.

By Ahmed Jundeya July 4, 2022