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Israel is Destroying My Entire Community and the World is Doing Nothing to Stop It

By Basel Adra

Every night, I go to sleep with my camera next to me, prepared to be awakened at any moment by the sound of Israeli military bulldozers coming to destroy my home. I’ve already photographed soldiers forcing dozens of families out of their homes in Masafer Yatta over the past month, part of the largest forced displacement of Palestinians carried out by Israel in decades. If the international…

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Expert Q&A: Israel’s Expulsion of Palestinians from Masafer Yatta

Expert Q&A: Israel’s Expulsion of Palestinians from Masafer Yatta

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Expert: Basel Adra, journalist and activist from Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank. On May 4, 2022, the Israeli supreme court ruled that Israel could expel more than 1,000 Palestinians from their homes in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank, ostensibly to make way for a training zone for Israel’s occupying army. While Israel routinely destroys the homes of Palestinians,…

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Expert Q&A: On Israel’s Displacement of the Palestinian Bedouin

Expert Q&A: On Israel’s Displacement of the Palestinian Bedouin

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Expert Suhad Bishara, Attorney and Director of Land and Planning Rights Unit for Adalah: The Legal Center for Minority Rights in Israel. Q&A Q - On September 16, Haaretz newspaper reported that the Israeli government is advancing plans to forcibly relocate 12,500 Bedouin Palestinians from lands just east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank to planned communities in the Jordan Valley. Why does…

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