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A New Settlement Outpost South of Bethlehem: A Reality Being Forced on the Ground

What is happening today in the villages south of Bethlehem, especially on the lands of Marah Ma’ala, is not something small or temporary.I’m writing this as someone who is watching it unfold — step by step — as land we know slowly becomes off-limits to the people who belong to it. The southern Bethlehem area…
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Isolation, Restriction, and Denial of Access: A New Siege on My Village of Al-Ma’sara and the Villages of Southern Bethlehem

I am writing this from inside my village, Al-Ma’sara, south of Bethlehem—not as breaking news or a field report, but as a personal account of a reality I live every day, and try to understand within the broader framework of policies of isolation and closure that now govern our lives, in Al-Ma’sara and the surrounding villages…
