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Masked Israeli troops block media visit to West Bank site of Oscar-winning film
Group of international reporters stopped on way to Masafer Yatta, which features in documentary No Other Land
The Academy Award won by No Other Land has not stopped the attacks on Masafer Yatta, a cluster of villages on the southern edge of the occupied territory, which has been the target of settler violence and house demolitions and forced displacement by the army for many years. Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty ImagesThe convoy of 20 reporters in press vehicles was stopped on the way to Masafer Yatta on Monday by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers wearing black balaclava-type masks hiding most of their faces. The International Solidarity Movement, a group set up to resist land seizures on occupied Palestinian territory, has said that two of its activists were detained in Khalet Al-Daba’a on Saturday, and that one of them, a 48-year-old Swedish resident of London, Susanne Björk, was deported.
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