Category: In the Media
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Settlers from Mitzpe Yair continue to attack Palestinian shepherds grazing on Palestinian owned land, even during Purim
16th March 2014 | Operation Dove | At-Tuwani, Occupied Palestine At-Tuwani – On Sunday March 16, during the Jewish holiday of Purim, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and Internationals on Palestinian fields near Mitzpe Yair illegal outpost. In the morning, four Palestinian shepherds from the village of Qawawis were grazing their flocks south of the Israeli…
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Local Israel boycott part of Gaza’s “resistance mentality”
8th March 2014 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine Agricultural organizations in the Gaza Strip are working with academic and other civil society groups to prepare for Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). Local events, as part of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, will run from Sunday, 9 March through Thursday, 13 March in the besieged coastal enclave. “On…
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Palestinian activists successfully plant 100 olive trees in fields targeted by settlers in South Hebron Hills
15th February 2014 | Operation Dove | Susiya, Occupied Palestine On February 15th, 2014, more than 60 Palestinian men, women and children from the South Hebron Hills and city of Hebron gathered in the Palestinian village of Susiya and together with international and Israeli activists, participated in a nonviolent action organized by the South Hebron…
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Settlers attack Palestinian shepherds, Israeli activists and internationals during nonviolent action in South Hebron Hills
8th February 2014 | Operation Dove | At Tuwani, South Hebron Hills, Occupied Palestine On the morning of February 8, 2014, during a nonviolent action claiming the right of Palestinians to access their own land, a group of settlers from the illegal outpost of Mitzpe Eshtamoa attacked Palestinians, Israeli activists and internationals with stones and sticks,…
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Gaza rallies in support of critically ill prisoner
9th February 2014 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine Sit-ins to support Palestinian prisoners — held every week since 1995 in the courtyard of the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Gaza office — have recently been followed by rallies outside for Ibrahim Bitar, a sick detainee in Israel’s Nafha prison. “We’ve garnered internal support for my…
