Category: Reports

  • Settlers steal two more flags from Issa’s house

    As part of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, hundreds of religious visitors traveled to the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday to view various religious sites and the settlements within the area. In previous years this event has coincided with incidences of violence towards local Palestinians and Human Rights Workers (HRWs), so efforts were…

  • Anti-wall Protests: army violence in Bil`in, relative restraint in Walaja

    By Ghassan Bannoura/John Smith IMEMC September 28, 2007 http://www.imemc.org/article/50679 http://www.imemc.org/article/50677 Video coverage Bil`in at http://mishtara.org/blog/?p=250 Nine injured in the weekly non violent protest at Bil`in At the weekly non violent protest at the village of Bil`in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, nine civilians were injured due to Israeli army attacks on…

  • New fence erected on anniversary of massacre

    September 27th, 2007 The regeneration of Issa’s house in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, carried on in earnest on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in 1994 by settler Baruch Goldstein, in which 29 Palestinians were murdered and 125 injured. Local activists together with international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) erected a wire fence…

  • Human Rights Observor attacked by settler, grilled by police

    Susiya, south Hebron region September 26th, 2007 A little before 10:00am an international human rights worker began to monitor an Israeli settler working on land located directly next to Susiya settlement on the road leading both to Hebron and Beer Sheva. This settler, Musi Doyts, is the only person allowed to work this land, in…

  • They punish the village by stealing our children

    Qusin, September 24th 2007. After reports of reprisals by IOF against the peaceful inhabitants of Qusin, two ISM activists visited the village today to receive first hand accounts of the harassment the villagers have received. After a non-violent and successful demonstration led by the people of Qusin and supported by international activists, the village has…