15 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On June 14th 2011 a Beit Ommar farmer reported that he was “ordered” to leave his farm land by an armed security guard from the adjacent Karmei Tzur settlement. The guard apparently used a ...
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Waves of attacks against West Bank mosques
18 June 2011 | Middle East Monitor, Ali Badwan In recent months, there have been repeated attacks by Israeli settlers against mosques across the West Bank. They were carried out with the complicity of Israel’s occupation army and encouraged by ...
Read More »IMEMC: Settlers torch farmlands near Ramallah
18 June 2011 | IMEMC, Saed Bannoura After a recent burning of its mosque, a group of extremist Israeli settlers torched on Friday Palestinian farmlands planted with wheat in the Al Mogheer village, north of the central west bank city of ...
Read More »Teenage boy targeted as part of Israeli campaign against local family
18 June 2011 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center A 14-year old boy was abducted by Israeli undercover forces from Bir Ayyub this morning. Ahmed Siyam was taken by an undercover unit from outside his uncle’s shop in Bir Ayyub and ...
Read More »Freedom Flotilla 2: Message In a Bottle
16 June 2011 | Adam Shapiro Freedom Flotilla 2 is setting sail to Gaza soon. Despite claims that the flotilla is not needed because “Rafah is now open”, the people of Gaza are still trapped and suffocated by Israel’s cruel ...
Read More »European Union expresses concern over persecution of West Bank protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi
16 June 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee EU representative to UN Human Rights Council stated on Tuesday that “The rights of Israeli and Palestinian Human Rights Defenders protesting peacefully […] are severely curtailed”, mentioning Tamimi’s case explicitly. The European ...
Read More »Popular Committee leader of Ni’lin arrested and two protesters injured by live ammo in Deir Qaddis
15 June 2011 | Ni’lin Two Protesters Injured with Live Ammunition and one arrested in Deir Qaddis Demonstrators disrupted construction of a new neighborhood in the adjacent settlement of Nili. Israeli soldiers responded with baton charges, tear-gas, rubber-coated steel bullets ...
Read More »Armed settlers harass the villagers of Qusra, a village south east of Nablus in the West Bank
14 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Saturday June 11, six or seven armed settlers accompanied by the Israeli military entered the Palestinian village of Qusra and harassed villagers. Before they escaped they threw stones at a village truck ...
Read More »Gaza: young Palestinians lead a global movement
14 June 2011 | Palestine Chronicle, Joe Catron On a warm, sunny afternoon, I met Eman Sourani and Rana Baker in an airy outdoor café several blocks from the port of Gaza. Both are members of the Palestinian Students’ Campaign ...
Read More »Interviews from Al Ma’asara resistance
13 June 2011 | Al Masara Resistance Interview with Hasan Brijia, a member of the Popular Struggle Committee I am Hasan, 43 years old and father of 7 children. I currently work in the Ministry against settlements and the Wall, ...
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