Category: Reports

  • Landowner visits land for the first time in years

    Susya 1st September 2007 12 Palestinians and 3 Human Rights Workers (HRWs) went to visit land which is overlooked by an illegal Israeli settler colony and which has taken the old Palestinian name of Susya. Access to this land by its owners has been restricted since 1984 when the Palestinian residents of Susya were forcibly…

  • Elderly woman harrassed by settlers on quad bike night and day

    1st and 2nd September 2007 At 9.30pm on 1st September an elderly Palestinian woman shouted in distress to the other tents of the village scattered across a hillside South of Hebron where the original inhabitants of Susya now live. She had been walking with a torch in the dark when some settlers drove up on…

  • Succesful Road Block Removal ends in Arrests

    31.08.2007, Sarra – Nablus Region On Friday, 31.08.2007, International and Israeli Human Rights Activists joined the people of Sarra village in another demonstration against a roadblock that for years has obstructed direct access into Nablus city. For the last five years the people of Sarra have had a trip of five minutes from their town…

  • Let Them East Grapes!

    Umm Salumona For the first time in two months a Palestinian farmer was given permission today to visit his land at Umm-Salumona in the district of North Bethlehem. A large area of land has been annexed by the Israeli military, just below the illegal Jewish settlement of Efrata, to construct the Apartheid Wall, an act…

  • Settler Aggression at the Jabri Family Farm

    Jabri Farm Demonstration 31 August 2007 A group of 40 activists, Palestinians, internationals, Israelis, ISM, CPT, the Children of Abraham and Taayush came to the jabri farm in Hebron for to demonstrate with the family, which faces displacement due to settler expansion. They came to collect hay for the owner’s goats clear the land of…