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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Julian Borger

Masked Israeli troops block media visit to West Bank site of Oscar-winning film

Masked Israeli soldiers block the entrance to a village in the Masafer Yatta area of the occupied West Bank on Monday
Masked Israeli soldiers block the entrance to a village in the Masafer Yatta area of the occupied West Bank on Monday. Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images

Masked Israeli soldiers have blocked an international group of reporters from visiting Palestinian villages on the West Bank that have been under sustained attack by Jewish settlers, and which were the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary film.

The Academy Award won by No Other Land has not stopped the attacks on Masafer Yatta, a cluster of villages on the southern edge of the occupied territory, which has been the target of settler violence and house demolitions and forced displacement by the army for many years.

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