Displacement policy

IOF displaces villagers in JV to carry out military drills

Thursday-9-February-2023

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) notified four Palestinian families living in Khirbet Humsa al-Baqi’ah hamlet in the northern Jordan Valley of their intent to carry out military drills on Thursday near their homes and ordered them to leave the area.

Masafar Yatta residents hold on to their land despite Israeli measures

Monday-6-February-2023

Palestinian citizens in Masafer Yatta south of the West Bank city of al-Khalil live under harsh conditions as most of them dwell in caves due to the denied Israeli construction permits.

60000 dunums of Masafer Yatta land threatened with appropriation

Monday-28-November-2022

The council of Masafer Yatta villages has warned of a dire situation threatening tens of thousands of dunums of land in Masafer Yatta area which the Israeli occupation state plans to annex and expel its local residents from.

Expulsion of Bedouins constitutes grave escalation of ethnic cleansing

Wednesday-14-September-2022

The Islamic-Christian Committee in Support of Jerusalem and its Sanctuaries on Wednesday warned of the escalating forcible expulsion campaigns launched by the Israeli accupation authority (IOA) against Bedouin communities in the outskirts of Jerusalem.

Israel displaces Palestinian family in Negev

Sunday-11-September-2022

The Israeli authorities displaced on Sunday morning a number of Palestinian citizens from ad-Dabsan family after demolishing their tents in Umm Alaq area in the Negev desert.

OCHA: Israel displaced 55 Palestinians in two weeks

Saturday-20-August-2022

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that the Israeli authorities demolished seized or forced people to demolish 50 Palestinian structures mostly homes during two weeks in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Jerusalem.

UN condemns Israel’s mass displacement of Palestinians in Yatta

Friday-8-July-2022

The United Nations has warned that the Israeli forcible mass eviction of approximately 1200 Palestinians from their homes in the Masafer Yatta area of the occupied West Bank amounts to a “war crime.”

IOA displaces Jerusalemite family after razing its home in Issawiya

Wednesday-1-June-2022

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) displaced a Palestinian family on Wednesday morning after demolishing its house in the east Jerusalem district of Issawiya at the pretext of unlicensed construction.

Masafer Yatta: A new victim of Israeli displacement policy

Tuesday-10-May-2022

For years the Masafer Yatta area south of al-Khalil has been subjected to continuous Israeli attacks with the aim of displacing its people and confiscating their lands by defining it as firing zone 918.

Egypt condemns Israel’s intents to raze Palestinian villages

Sunday-8-May-2022

Egypt has strongly denounced the Israeli occupation authority’s intents to demolish a number of Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta area in the occupied West Bank stressing that “such practices undermine the chances of reaching a two-state solution and establishing a comprehensive and just peace in the region.”