Author: swing

  • Israeli forces arrest 6 solidarity activists in Beit Ommar

    Palestine Solidarity Project 7 July 2009 On July 7, 2009 at approximately 5pm, an Israeli military official called the mayor of Beit Ommar/ Saffa, Nasri Sabarneh, and informed him that settlers had set fire to some trees in the Abu Jabber Soleiby land in Saffa, just under the illegal Bat ‘Ayn settlement. A group of…

  • The blue velvet hills of my youth have been destroyed

    Raja Shehadeh | The Guardian 5 July 2009 I can remember the appearance of the hills around Ramallah in 1979, before any Jewish settlement came to be established there. In the spring of that year I walked north from Ramallah, where I live, to the nearby village of A’yn Qenya and up the pine-forested hill.…

  • Farmers harassed in Khiriat Salama

    30 June 2009 On Monday the 30th of June some farmers of the Khiriat Salama, a village about 15 km south west of Hebron, were prevented from working their land. They were forced to leave their olive groves by Israeli soldiers and got delivered a paper with a decision of an Israeli court that stated…