Masafer Yatta under imminent threat

Israel is planning to expel around 1,000 Palestinians, including 500 children, from their homes in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills.

The UK government must take urgent action to prevent Israel from carrying out this war crime--it should commit to clear consequences, including sanctions on the Israeli state and any companies whose equipment is involved in the forcible transfer of Palestinians from their homes.

Write the FCDO and pile on the pressure for the UK to finally take meaningful action to #DefendMasaferYatta

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Dear Minister, I am writing to raise urgent alarm over Israel’s plans to imminently expel around 1,000 Palestinians, including 500 children, from their homes in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills of the occupied West Bank. Forcible transfer of civilians in the context of military occupation is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, a war crime under international law. The UK government must take urgent action to prevent this war crime by committing to clearly stated consequences for doing so, beginning with sanctions on the Israeli state and any companies whose equipment is involved in forcible transfer of Palestinians from their homes. 
In the first days of January 2023, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem <a href="https://mailchi.mp/btselem/fast-tracked-war-crime">learned</a> that Israeli authorities had made clear their intentions to serve eviction notices to Palestinians in Masafer Yatta. This escalates the dangerous conditions created by a May 2022 Israeli High Court ruling green-lighting the forcible transfer of over 1,000 Palestinians their land. Since that court decision, Israeli armed forces have subjected Palestinians in Masafer Yatta to a range of harassment and abuse, including violence, arbitrary arrest of human rights defenders, and demolition of properties. Now, after the news in January, Palestinians in Masafer Yatta have reported to us that they go to sleep each night wondering if it is the last night in their homes.
Israel systematically violates the rights of the Palestinian people, including those in Masafer Yatta, and subjects them to horrific violence and suffering; all the while, the UK government continues to approve arms sales to Israel, lets Israel’s trade in illegal settlement goods flourish, and allows British companies like JCB to profit from involvement in war crimes against the Palestinian people, including the demolition of their homes and properties.
The UK government expressed “dismay” in November 2022, when Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian school in Masafer Yatta just one day after UK and other donor governments visited. It is quite feasible that this UK-funded school was demolished with bulldozers supplied by UK companies. However, no action was taken by the UK government to deter Israel from committing more crimes like this, or to prevent UK companies from involvement in such criminality. A lack of meaningful action has contributed to the impunity enjoyed by the Israeli government and its brazen announcements of new illegal settlements and intentions to forcibly transfer more Palestinians.
The UK government has already made clear that forcible transfer of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta would be beyond the pale—but without concrete and meaningful action, this will be simply another statement for the Israeli government to ignore.
I would appreciate a detailed response as to what actions the UK government will be taking in light of Israel’s imminent threats against Palestinians in Masafer Yatta.

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