On the 40th anniversary of the Israeli massacre in the Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Shatila, we watch in horror as Palestinians living in Masafer Yatta are facing the largest forced expulsion since 1967 at the hands of the same military.
Right now in Masafer Yatta, there are 12 Palestinian villages and 2 schools that could be demolished at any moment. The people of Masafer Yatta, half of them children, are subjected to daily attacks and nightly raids by the Israeli military and settlers.
Since the start of the school year in Masafer Yatta, the Israeli military stopped and detained Palestinian teachers and students nearly every day on their way to class. These abhorrent tactics are intended to target Masafer Yatta’s most vulnerable population: children.
Palestinians in Masafer Yatta face beatings, theft, arson, “drills" using live ammunition, and attacks from settlers — all carried out by the Israeli military. This daily violence is designed to make life in Masafer Yatta unlivable.
Following the Nakba, violence against the people of Masafer Yatta escalated in the 1980s when Israel declared the village a “firing zone” with the explicit purpose of ethnically cleansing the region for Israeli settlement.
The Israeli military is able to enact daily violence on Palestinians in Masafer Yatta with the help of $3.8 billion in funding it receives from the US government., we stand in solidarity with the people of Masafer Yatta by demanding the US stop using tax dollars to fund genocide.
Stand with the people of Masafer Yatta today by taking the lead from Palestinians protesting on the ground right now. Amplify their struggle with the hashtags #DefendMasaferYatta and #UNinvestigateApartheid.
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