Masafer Yatta is often in the news. Missing from the headlines, however, is the daily struggle of the residents of this once-peaceful Palestinian region.
Israeli occupation authorities yesterday delivered halt work notices for 12 Palestinian homes in Hebron s occupied Bedouin town of Masafer Yatta. The Coordinator of the Protection and Resilience .
Israeli occupation authorities order halt on construction in south of West Bank, residents clash with soldiers
HEBRON, Monday, February 08, 2021 (WAFA) - A number of Palestinians protesting Israeli army stop construction orders were today injured after Israeli occupation forces shot teargas canisters at them in the village of al-Tuwani, in Masafer Yatta area, in the south of the occupied West Bank, said a local source.
Fouad al-Amor, a local activist, said residents clashed with the soldiers who raided the village to hand four families stop construction orders for their houses and water well.
Several residents suffocated from inhaling teargas and were treated at the location, he said.
Published date: 26 January 2021 09:15 UTC | Last update: 1 month 4 weeks ago
More than three weeks after he was shot in the neck by an Israeli soldier, Harun Abu Aram is still hanging between life and death.
The 23-year-old Palestinian had attempted, barefoot, to prevent soldiers from confiscating his power generator, the family’s only source of electricity, on 1 January in the area of Masafer Yatta, near the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
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While Abu Aram’s case has sparked outrage as yet another violent incident under the Israeli occupation, Palestinian residents of the embattled area say the raid that day was part of a longstanding Israeli crackdown on Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, in an effort to displace them from the area.