Save Masafer Yatta: Write to the Foreign Office

After a two-decade legal battle, Israel’s high court has ruled that over 1,000 Palestinians can be forcible displaced from an area of the West Bank and the land repurposed for Israeli military use.

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Dear Minister, Israel’s High Court has just ruled that over 1,000 Palestinians can be forcibly evicted from their land in the Occupied West Bank. The Court’s decision is a devastating blow to twelve of the villages situated in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills, and yet another clear example of Israeli apartheid in action. An urgent response is required from you to prevent this ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Since the 1970s Israel has declared up to 18% of the West Bank as ‘firing zones’, used for military exercises and where Palestinians are not permitted. According to the Geneva conventions pertaining to humanitarian treatment in war, it is illegal to expropriate occupied land for purposes that do not benefit the people living there, or to forcibly transfer the local population. The forced expulsion of Palestinian communities from these declared ‘firing zones’ is a clear violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, making it a war crime. It should be a major red flag to the UK that Israel’s highest court has once again indicated it does not recognise the Geneva Conventions as applying to occupied Palestinian territory. 
<div style="text-align: center;">“We have been fighting with Israel in the courts for the last 22 years and it took this judge five minutes to destroy the lives of 12 villages and the people who are dependent on the land. In the end, history repeats itself: Nakba after Nakba.” </div>
<div style="text-align: right;">- Nidal Younes, head of Masafar Yatta village council</div>
 The UK recognises Israeli settlements as illegal and counter productive to peace. We have a legal and moral responsibility to stand up for those Palestinians now facing imminent displacement from their lands in the name of expanding illegal Israeli settlements and ‘military firing zones’. This includes holding Israel accountable for violations of international law, and also not enabling illegal settlements to flourish with the support of UK trade. Please take immediate action to demand Israel stops its annexation of Palestinian land, and end UK complicity in Israeli war crimes by banning trade with illegal settlements and ending the arms trade with Israel.

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