On 29 September, during the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council, at the General Debate on the human rights situation in Palestine, Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII (APG23) took the
floor to denounce the escalating violence by Israeli settlers and occupation forces in the West Bank.
In its statement, APG23 echoed the words of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk and drew attention to the situation of communities such as Masafer Yatta, affected by violence, forced evictions, demolitions, burnt houses, destruction of livelihoods, and attacks against those who provide solidarity and support. 
Facing the spectre of ethnic cleansing, the appeal is clear: stand by the Palestinian people and communities who are resisting occupation and violence through nonviolent means, end impunity, and fully uphold international law and United Nations resolutions.

 

On 24 September 2026, during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, during the dialogue with the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (which presented the study on the rights of Indigenous Peoples in situations of conflict and post-conflict), a representative of the Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII (APG23) brought the situation of the Mapuche people in Chile to the attention of the assembly, drawing attention to the deep-rooted injustices that have long marked the relationship between Mapuche communities and the State.

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.

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