Autumn nights are very long in Masafer Yatta: dogs bark all night long and every noise becomes frightening when you have to keep watch to make sure that settlers don't leave the outposts. On Saturday evenings, they often celebrate Shabbat in this way, armed and hooded, hunting Palestinians, ready to destroy houses, wreak havoc in fields, slaughter sheep, and sometimes even beat entire families with sticks.

On September 30, representatives of the Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII (APG23) took part in the general debate during the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council on the “human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied territories,” which highlighted grave and systematic human rights violations.
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A difficult month to recount in person, even more so to report in a few lines, but I will try. Never would I have thought to be saying things like “it’s a situation where you just had to be there”, but now I know that it’s true; you need to live through the occupation to understand it.

Since 2004, Operazione Colomba has been involved in monitoring - and accompanying to ensure access - the Right to Education of Palestinian students in Masafer Yatta (South Hebron Hills, West Bank). Since 7 October 2023, the Right to Education of Palestinians in the area has been impeded by continuous attacks by settlers and abuses by Israeli soldiers. The boys and girls of the village of Tuba have had to find alternative ways to not completely abandon the course of studies undertaken.