As attention shifts to the Israeli-US war on Iran, we must not lose sight of the massive escalation in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Read the latest installment of our Humans of Masafer Yatta x Vashti column by @mohammadhesham.bsky.social www.vashtimedia.com/who-would-bu...
Last night Israeli Apartheid Forces assaulted a group of Palestinians young men during a raid on the village of Al-Tabqa south of Hebron , this is in the West Bank and this is the “most moral army in the world“
2/2 They shattered car windows, burned 3 houses and 2 cars. A truck, a family’s sleeping tent, and cars were left in flames. This state-supported aggregation aims at driving Palestinians off their ancestral land.
1/2Urgent 🚨 Just minutes ago in Susya, Masafer Yatta, more than 30 armed settlers carried out a coordinated, attack on Palestinian families. The settlers were seen throwing explosives at a home with a family inside, and smashing security cameras with stones to hide the crime.
3/3 They shot into the air and prevented us from approaching or filming. They assaulted us and confiscated the ambulance keys and the paramedics’ phones to prevent them from taking the Palestinian they injured to the hospital.
2/3 They beat Mufdi Rabai, who suffers from health problems, and left him lying on the ground for hours. They prevented ambulances from reaching him. Then they arrested my friend Majd Rabai and a solidarity activist.
1/3 Settlers wearing the colors of occupation forces stormed my village, Tuwani – Masafer Yatta, and attacked my neighbor Mufdi Rabai and his son Majd Rabai while they were grazing their sheep on their own land.
The moment when the child Ayman Rabae 11 Y.O was injured by an explosive left behind the Israeli occupation army next to his home in my community Masafer Yatta after the last raid to his house in Jinba Village.
They attacked the residents, burned their property, then they stole their sheep.
Another video captures Israeli settlers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, attacking Palestinians in my community and stealing their property under full coordination and protection from the Israeli army.
The moment of the settlers Rampage on my community Masafer Yatta.
The result of the settlers Pogrom on my community Masafer Yatta: 5 injuries 2 women got attackedby settlers then arrested by the IOF, 2 cars were destroyed, Burning private property, tens of sheep were stolen.
All this happened in full view of the IOF, who stood by and did nothing. Not a single settler was arrested. On the contrary, Israeli settlers assaulted two Palestinian women and the soldiers arrested them (women).
It is organized terror carried out enabled by military, with total impunity
Over the past 5 hours, settler militias carried out a brutal pogrom against my people in my village, Masafer Yatta. The violent settlers stormed homes, burned properties, destroyed vehicles , and stole livestock. Settlers did not stop there! Their violence brought numerous injuries among civilians.
2 solidarity activists were kidnapped by the IOF from my village-Tuwani. Settlers in uniform violently stole their car keys, detained them, and called in a IOF, which arrived at the scene, handcuffed them, blindfolded them, and put them into military vehicles.
🔴 URGENT– Masafer Yatta
Happening NOW! Armed settler militias are carrying out a terror attack on the village of Khallet AlDabaa. At least 10 Palestinians have been injured,with cases ranging from moderate to critical.
More details will emerge.
👉 Stop the ethnic cleansing of Masafer Yatta. ACT NOW!
Today, Israeli settler terrorists attacked Qawawis in Masafer Yatta, smashing homes, injuring 3 solidarity activists & 5 Palestinians, many with broken bones. As victims lie in hospitals, not a single Jewish terrorist is held accountable. This is daily life under Israel’s regime.
Israel murdered Awdah Hathaleen — and now holds his body hostage
His mother, his wife and over 60 women from the village have launched a hunger strike They are starving for one simple human right: to bury their son in dignity
I wrote this on: @mondoweiss.net
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The hunger-striking women also demand the Israeli occupation releases Awdah's family members, who have been kidnapped and put in the notorious torture camp of Ofer, near Ramallah.
His mother waits to say a final goodbye.
His wife starves so the world might listen.
Breaking update from Umm Al-Khair, Masafer Yatta:
Today, over 70 women from Umm Al-Khair have begun a hunger strike, demanding the immediate return of Awdah Hathaleen's body which is still held hostage by the Israeli occupation, after he was murdered by a well-known settler terrorist on Monday.
Today, a settler from the terror outpost of Havat Ma’on marched into our land in Tuwani with his sheep and began destroying trees that are older than the outpost itself. Israeli police did nothing, and Israeli forces assaulted us, push us away, and announced "This is Jewish Land"
Imagine this: Settlers stole 3 sheep from my neighbours , and then came back at night — with full Israeli military support— to steal a fourth. From the same family. The same brutality. This isn’t about sheep. It’s about power, humiliation, and erasing Palestinian life.
TODAY: Armed Israeli settlers + soldiers TERRORIZED Masafer Yatta today, storming homes in Al-Tuwani, STEALING sheep & attacking Palestinians. They beat activists & assaulted the Rabai family. No justice. No consequences. This is Israel's policy of ethnic cleansing in action.
They beat him to death and left his body in the fields of Sinjil.
Mohammed Awad, a young Palestinian, murdered by Israeli settlers — the second killing in the same village today.
How many more lives must be stolen before the world stops this terror?
For 40 years, Israel has tried to erase us.
Now, with a new military order, we fear this could be our final displacement.
1,200 of us — families, children, elders — now face forced displacement under a brutal Israeli military order.
I wrote this on @Mondoweiss.
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Israeli settlers have set fire to a Palestinian house in Susya village in my community Masafer Yatta — a deliberate act of terror meant to drive families out of their land. This isn’t an isolated crime, it’s a strategy of forced displacement backed by the Israeli occupation.
Last night Israeli extremist settlers backed by Soldiers violently attacked the village of Shkara near Susya. Several residents including women and children were injured.3 cars were destroyed.IOF arrested 4 Palestinians meanwhile settlers went back freely to their illegal outpost
4/4 This is life under occupation: constant harassment, punishment without cause, and the criminalization of simply existing on our own land.
But no matter how many times they try to break us, we will keep returning. We are rooted here. We are not going anywhere.
3/4 We were held for over an hour in the middle of the road. Then they arrested my uncle and took our car to a military base near the village of Susiya.
They eventually released my uncle, but they’re still holding the car.
2/4 Israeli settlers—dressed as IOF —stormed the village and forced us to leave. They threatened to arrest us if we returned. We left—but moments after, They chased us down, blocked the road with their vehicle & confiscated our car documents, personal IDs, and the car keys.
1/4 Today in Khalet al-Daba’a, in my community Masafer Yatta, we were there standing in solidarity with the residents after brutal settler in the military uniform raid. But even this simple act of presence was too much for the occupation
This isn’t security. It’s the final phase of ethnic cleansing.
📣 Khalet al-Dabaa is being erased. The world must act now.
