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"Israeli authorities’ hubris is proving without limits," they say in a joint statement.

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U.N. experts on Tuesday slammed Israel's "harassment" of human rights defenders and humanitarian workers in the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta villages, where Israel has a military zone. The special rapporteurs insisted such harassment must stop, and said residents continue to be threatened by the risk of forcible transfer, including mass forced evictions and arbitrary…

UN experts slam Israels harassment in West Bank

Meet the Palestinians fighting to stay in their homes in the South Hebron Hills and resist what rights groups are calling an Israeli war crime under international law.

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.

From the blog of Naomi Magnus at Jewish News

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.

A senior EU diplomat expresses concern about the possible mass displacement of Palestinians from a rural area in the occupied West Bank.

Israel’s High Court of Justice had ruled in May that the army could evict more than 1,000 Palestinians who live in scattered small herding villages in an IDF training area.