Category: Press Releases

  • Jalud Olive Harvest Stopped by Armed Settlers and the Israeli Army

    The Ibrahim family of the West Bank village of Jalud, accompanied by international and Israeli Human Rights Workers (HRWs), were forcibly prevented from harvesting their land yesterday by both armed settlers and the Israeli Army. Jalud, a community of about 500 people in the district of Nablus, regularly faces harrassment from nearby settlements and settlement…

  • Al-Haq: Open Letter to Quartet Members: Israel’s Recent Land Confiscations East of Occupied Jerusalem

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 November 2007 Dear Quartet Member, As a Palestinian non-governmental organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of international human rights and humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Al-Haq is gravely concerned at the planned land confiscations in the vicinity of East Jerusalem, and requests that the Quartet assert itself…

  • Settlers burn olive trees in Jamma’in

    The West Bank village of Jamma’in has 10 000 residents, most of them farmers, and is close to the biggest illegal settlement in the west bank, Ariel, and another smaller one, Tapua. Often the villagers are harassed by settlers, most recently a few days ago when an old man was mugged whilst harvesting his olive…