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Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra says Israeli soldiers raided his home in West Bank

Basel Adra co-directed the film No Other Land, a joint Palestinian-Israeli production that chronicles the struggle by residents to stop the Israeli military from demolishing the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta.

Euronews

Who was Awdah Hathaleen, Palestinian activist killed by an Israeli settler?

The family man, activist, and football fiend also helped make an Oscar-winning documentary.

Al Jazeera

Israeli settler kills Palestinian teacher who helped make Oscar-winning film

Odeh Muhammad Hadalin played a key role in supporting the production of No Other Land, which captured the impact of Israeli military and settler violence on his West Bank community

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Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian activist out on house arrest

Footage appears to show settler shooting West Bank activist tied to Oscar-winning film.

Al Jazeera

After 20-year fight, Israel to expel Masafer Yatta Palestinians from homes

The occupied West Bank villagers had their land deemed a military zone, Israeli army is trying to demolish their homes.

Al Jazeera

Palestinians fear razing of villages in West Bank, as settlers circle their homes

An Israeli directive gives a green light for demolitions in Masafer Yatta, where residents keep watch at night for attackers in the darkness

The Guardian - UK

‘Let down by a world that claims to be humane but does nothing’: Palestinians speak out as Israeli bulldozers raze West Bank villages

IN DEPTH: Masafer Yatta, a collection of villages in the West Bank, has long been a target of forced evictions and settler attacks. After the month of May saw a village almost entirely wiped out and the announcement of 22 new Israeli settlements, Palestinians are losing hope, Alex Croft reports

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Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal released by Israeli authorities after attack

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Oscar-winning directors of 'No Other Land', has been released by Israeli authorities after he was detained last night following clashes in the West Bank.

Euronews

Director attacked in West Bank: report

Hamdan Ballal was reportedly beaten by Israeli settlers in an attack in Masafer Yatta on Monday

Salon

Palestinians hope 'No Other Land' Oscar win brings help as they face possible Israeli expulsion

Palestinians cheered the Oscar win of the Palestinian-Israeli documentary “No Other Land,” documenting the struggle of West Bank villagers facing possible expulsion by the Israeli military

The Independent UK

‘The UK should know what their government is supporting’: the Israeli and Palestinian film-makers shining a light on West Bank violence

No Other Land has won its directors awards – but also forced them to leave their families facing the dangers depicted

The Guardian - UK

A Palestinian-Israeli collective made one of 2024's most lauded docs. Will it be released in the US?

Basel Adra, a Palestinian, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli, spent five years making a movie that depicts daily life in Adra’s village under Israeli occupation

The Independent UK

No Other Land review – powerful Israel-Palestine documentary is essential viewing

A Palestinian-Israeli collective have documented violence and displacement in a damning new film that offers a stark insider’s look at the conflict

The Guardian - US

Documentary 'No Other Land' Sheds Light On Palestinian Struggles

Explore the poignant documentary 'No Other Land' depicting the struggles of Palestinians in the West Bank, focusing on the resilience of the Masafer Yatta ...

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The scene in the West Bank's Masafer Yatta: Palestinians face escalating Israeli efforts to displace them

Our ride pulls over on the side of the highway to let us out and we begin our 20-minute hike into the village of Wadi Tiran in the occupied West Bank. Before Oct. 7, 2023, there was a road that went all the way to the village, but Jewish settlers…

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For Palestinian children living in Masafer Yatta, going to school is an act of resistance

Go to any coffee shop or grocery store in Canada and you’ll be sure to hear it — parents discussing the quality of their children’s schools and education.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Taxpayer money shouldn’t support illegal Israeli settlements

On March 7, 2023, I was walking with another international activist near Tuba village in Masafer Yatta, a group of villages at the southernmost end of the West Bank, when we were set upon by Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on. One settler chased my companion,…

The Independent UK

Israel demolishes parts of West Bank hamlet set for eviction

Residents and activists say the Israeli military has demolished homes, water tanks and olive orchards in two Palestinian villages in the south of the occupied West Bank

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Al Jazeera

Palestinian villagers in Masafer Yatta face immediate expulsion

Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, have been told they will be displaced imminently.

Al Jazeera

Israeli forces demolish Palestinian school in Masafer Yatta

The school served 22 students from four different villages in the southern region of the occupied West Bank.

France 24

How zoning laws allow the Israeli Army to demolish Palestinian villages

More than a thousand Bedouin Palestinians living in the hills of Mount Hebron in the West Bank are at risk of losing their homes under zoning laws that allow the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to evict them at any time. In the 1980s, the IDF declared their homeland a so-called…

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Life in the firing zone in Masafer Yatta, the Palestinian territory where people have lived in caves for generations

The people of Masafer Yatta are determined to hold on to their cave-dwelling lifestyle. “I was born in this cave and gave birth to all 12 of my children here,” says Hajja Halima Abu Younis, an 82-year-old woman from Jinba, one of 33 villages in this semi-desert region at the…

The Guardian - UK

‘Every day is worse than the one before’: a Palestinian community fights for survival

One of the biggest expulsion decisions since the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories began in 1967 has left an entire community at risk

Al Jazeera

Palestinians in West Bank’s Masafer Yatta decry settler attacks

Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank denounce attacks by Israeli settlers.

Reuters

At some West Bank schools, looming displacement disrupts return to class

Haitham Abu Sabha, the principal at Masafer Yatta Secondary School in the occupied West Bank, expects his students to show up late to class. On some days, when the children are there on time, it is the teachers who have yet to arrive.

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