Hills Under Siege

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.

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