Palestine Solidarity Project Saturday, 16th May 2009 On the morning of the 16th, Palestinian farmers from Beit Ommar village with lands in Saffa close to the illegal Israeli settlement of Bet Ayn, defied a closed military zone order issued by ...
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Settlers, farmers, soldiers, internationals
Max Blumenthal | Mondoweiss On Saturday I traveled to the South Hebron Hills, to the Palestinian village of Safa, with an Israeli group called Ta’ayush that works to protect Palestinian farmers from settler violence and documents the proliferation of illegal ...
Read More »Israeli barrier bites into Palestinian village
Ivan Karakashian | Reuters 18 May 2009 Israel’s land barrier is slowly destroying the fabric of this Palestinian village of Christians and Muslims in the West Bank, setting a prime example of why the United States wants settlements to stop. ...
Read More »Israel begins new settlement, despite U.S. opposition
Ha’aretz 18 May 2009 Israel has begun constructing a new settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, Army Radio reported. The move comes on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meeting with ...
Read More »Palestinian farmers and internationals prevented from working their land by Israeli army
15th May 2009 On the morning of the 15th, a group of international and Israelis helped the al-Jabari family to clear their lands in readiness for planting a new crop. The al-Jabari family’s land is located between the two illegal ...
Read More »Norwegian MP: If investment in occupation acceptable, we must revise ethics guidelines
Ma’an News Agency 15 May 2009 A Norwegian ethics committee is due to travel to Israel and the West Bank in two weeks to assess the investment of the world’s largest government pension fund, The Norwegian Government Pension Fund, in ...
Read More »New West Bank roads jeopardizing chances for peace accord
Amos Harel | Ha’aretz 14 May 2009 Palestinian interest in the intentions of the new Israeli government tends to focus on one small area in the West Bank, Ma’aleh Adumim and its environs, particularly the area known as E1 linking ...
Read More »Israeli organizations call on Norway to divest from the Israeli Occupation
Twenty different Israeli organizations send an appeal to the Norwegian people to withdraw Norwegian national pension fund’s investments in all Israeli and international corporations which are involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. “We, Israeli organizations …, call upon ...
Read More »Israeli forces prevent Beit Ommar farmers from working their lands
Palestine Solidarity Project 9th of May 2009 On Saturday, May 9th, farmers from Beit Ommar with lands in Saffa, close to the illegal Israeli settlement of Beit Ayn, were prevented from working their fields after Israeli forces declared the area ...
Read More »Israel has secret plan to thwart division of Jerusalem
Akiva Eldar | Ha’aretz 10 May 2009 The government and settler organizations are working to surround the Old City of Jerusalem with nine national parks, pathways and sites, drastically altering the status quo in the city. The secret plan was ...
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