Israeli Settler Violence and Systemic Impunity in Masafer Yatta (2010-2025)

Drawing on 15 years of field presence and documentation, this report by Operazione Colomba (Operation Dove) examines the escalating violence carried out by Israeli settlers against Palestinian communities in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills.

Through first-hand testimonies, photographs, videos, and systematic data collection, it exposes patterns of harassment, assault, destruction, and dispossession, as well as the persistent impunity enjoyed by those responsible.
The report also examines how settler violence, institutional support, and the absence of accountability contribute to the forced displacement of Palestinian communities in Area C of the West Bank.

With a foreword by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

Read and Download the Report

Carlo is on his way back from Syria. He is the last Operazione Colomba volunteer still in the area, and before catching his flight home, he stops in Lebanon.
He is in Akkar, the place where we spent around twelve years as Operazione Colomba. From there, he sends us a photograph: the one you see here. Just a few empty square metres.
“The tent is gone,” he writes.
And it is. All that remains is a rectangle of old concrete and dust. This is where the “doves” lived for years, alongside people fleeing the war in Syria. It is not a large piece of land, but it has witnessed an extraordinary amount of life, humanity, feeling and emotion.

A gift is different from a present, a token, or an offering.
There is something reverent and profound in this word, something that conveys the full force of choosing to part with what is vital, personal, and intimate in order to entrust it to someone else; of accepting to lose something so that someone else may cherish and safeguard it.
Indeed, when we give a gift to someone we love, we reveal ourselves; we allow ourselves to be seen a little more deeply.
On my first day in Greece, I received a gift, a true gift.

Last week, we accompanied some members of the Peace Community to agricultural work on some of their lands, a six-hour trek from San Josecito de la Dignidad, where I live.
During the five days we spent there together, we had the chance to share quiet moments at home, celebrate E.’s birthday with a lovely cake - and an egg on the head, as per the Colombian tradition - and join them in their field work.

But what does it actually mean to "accompany"?

Diary of Francesca – 4

Me and Murim
Me, Murim and her fear in a waiting room 

I pick her up in the hotel she has been living in for a few days, after having slept for many long nights on the streets, without shelter, with her son, without a place to stay
Today is suffocatingly hot, I keep sweating
She has a fur instead
In my broken Arabic, walking by cars and construction sites, I try to laugh with her at this difference, to break the ice 

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