Author: ISM Media Group
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Umm Salamona: Soldiers Get Rough With Protesters
On Friday afternoon August 17th over 150 Palestinian landowners and their families were accompanied by Israeli and international human rights activists to protest against the Apartheid wall in Umm Salamona and W’laga on the outskirts of Bethlehem. The demonstration has become a weekly event as residents become more and more determined to draw attention to…
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Palestinians Prevented from Accessing Their Land Despite High Court Ruling
Report from Nablus region Deir Al Hattab August 17th, 2007 Four international ISM human rights workers joined Palestinian activists and the local popular committee yesterday in Deir Al Hattab concerning the ongoing situation there. Deir Al Hattab is a village of 13,000 dunums that has been able to reach only 5,000 since 1986 due to…
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Israeli Army attacks nonviolent protesters again in Bilin
The Israeli military continues to violently attack completely non violent demonstrations. This video is from the weekly demonstration in Bili village from August 17, 2007.
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Settlers Take Land, Soldiers Do Nothing
In the area of Susya in Hebron, an illegal settler sets out to farm crops on land owned by local Palestinians. Soldiers refuse to act, even after human rights workers explain that Palestinians have documents which prove the land is theirs, and have gone to the police already about this matter.
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Kiryat Arba settlers throw party on privately owned Palestinian land
At 1:40pm a group of international human rights workers received a call from a Palestinian man, Anan Jabouri, who lives on land he owns directly next to Kiryat Arba settlement. Jabouri told a local Palestinian resident, and member of ISM, that a large group of Israeli settlers had set up a tent on his land…
