The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
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Apr 8, 2026
Updates from the ground: Gaza’s Water Crisis & Jenin’s Forced Erasure
Good Shepherd Collective, Jul 1, 2025
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Hard days in Masafer Yatta
Mar 27, 2025
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Madison-Based Palestine Partners Supports Women And Youth In The West Bank
Ben Slowey, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Jan 21, 2025
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Update: Replace Palestinian Families’ Sheep
Jan 30, 2025 Update
Our heads are being smashed in as the world turns a blind eye
Hamdan Ballal, HUMANS OF MASAFER YATTA, Jan 16, 2025
Today at Tuba in Masafer Yatta
December 22, 2024 Settlers have been in the village of Tuba multiple times in the…
End-of-Year Appeal
Survival in Gaza, Plant an Olive Tree, and Replace the Sheep Your help is needed…
2024.12.13: West Bank Update from Cassandra Dixon on WORT
WORT 89.9FM Madison · A Report from the West Bank, Then an Update on Syria…
In Masafer Yatta There’s No P In PTSD
WORT 89.9FM Madison · In Masafer-Yatta there’s no P in PTSD WORLD VIEW, DECEMBER 8,…
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The West Bank villages wiped off the map by Israeli settler violence
Since October 7, over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes…
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As the world has focused on the Gaza genocide, a massive Israeli campaign of violence…
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From attack dogs to prison time, this is how Israel is trying to thwart my activism
The Israeli army wants to make an example of Palestinians who protest the occupation —…
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By Hamdan Ballal, HUMANS OF MASAFER YATTA, NOV 10, 2024 Masafer Yatta is living through…
Hello from Masafer Yatta
Cassandra Dixon, November 6, 2024
A Special Appeal for Masafer Yatta
My dear friends, As I return to Masafer-Yatta in the West Bank, I would gratefully…
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Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s…
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“Our Job Is to Flatten Gaza. No One Will Stop Us.”
Inside one Israeli battalion’s yearlong mission of destruction YOUNIS TIRAWI AND SAMI VANDERLIP, DROP SITE NEWS, OCT…
U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Genocidal Israel
Without massive, unconditional U.S. military subsidies, Israel would have had to practice diplomacy with their…
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How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law
Mobilisation of violent settlers has intensified Palestinians’ fears of attacks and displacement Alison Killing, Chris Campbell and Peter Andringa in…
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Settler attack near cave home projects
This morning Mohammed Badawi Al-Dababse, one of the shepherds from Khalat al-Dabea in Masafer Yatta,…
Wisconsin Ceasefire-in-Gaza Advocates to DNC: “No More Bombs”
Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Aug 27, 2024 About 150 Wisconsin Ceasefire-in-Gaza advocates joined tens…
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Echoes of Standing Rock and Climate Change in Backlash to Pro-Palestine Protests on Campus
By Alleen Brown, Center for Media and Democracy, May 3rd, 2024 This story is co-published with Drilled.…
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Do Palestinians Have Human Rights?
Hamdan Huraini, HUMANS OF MASAFER YATTA, MAY 5, 2024 How do we define human rights?…
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The past days have been horrific for the residents of Majaz, one of the villages…
How Israeli settler violence is forcing Palestinians to flee their homes
Bethan McKernan, Kyri Evangelou, Mariam Dwedar and Temujin Doran, The Guardian, 14 Dec 2023
Many West Bank Palestinians Are Being Forced Out of Their Villages. Is My Family Next?
Zuhour Muhammad Awad, the author’s grandmother, walking in the village of Tuba in May 2021.…
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IDF Torture Videos Spark Renewed Calls to End US Military Aid to Israel Bound, blindfolded,…
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More than 100 Palestinians have been killed, more than 2,000 injured and nearly 1,000 forcibly…
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Settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territory Herders report violence driving them from their homes…
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Good Shepherd Collective October 14, 2023 At the request of supporters from abroad, we applied…
Thank You from Palestine!
Hello friends, Thank you all so much for helping me to come back to Palestine,…
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Dear Friends, I wanted to let you know that I will be returning to Palestine…
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“We are staying here, herding our sheep and cultivating our land. Nothing will uproot us…
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The people of Masafer Yatta are using ancestors’ caves to resist Israel’s home demolitions Members…
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Al Fakheit is one of 12 villages located in the Masafer Yatta area that Israel…
The village where Palestinians are rendered completely powerless
Help Harun Abu Aram Heal Rebuilding Alliance is organizing this fundraiser and will be working…
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Amira Hass, Haaretz, 03/08/2020 Next Monday the justices of the High Court of Justice will…
Gideon Levy: Let the Annexation Begin
Gideon Levy, If Americans Knew, September 12, 2019
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Operation Dove, February 12, 2017 More information on Operation Dove This Saturday morning residents of…
Kathy Kelly on Gaza
Voices for Creative Nonviolence, January 6, 2009 Rafah — Traffic on Sea Street, a major…
