Category: Reports
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International Human Rights Workers Try to Enforce Israeli Court Order When the Military Will Not
Shortly after 8:00am an international human rights worker (HRW) rode his bicycle past an area where three settlers were working. The area in question was declared a closed military zone by the army on August 18th which forbade all but one settler man, Musi Doyts, from entering, or working on the property. The international took…
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Aggressive Settlers Set Fire to Palestinian Olive Trees
Tel, Nablus region 29/08/08 On Monday, August 27th, at 2pm, a family of seven settlers, headed by the father, Moshe Zohar, came down from their illegally built house next to the Qadumim settlement, on to Palestinian land and set fire to around 300 olive trees. The Zohar family live in a house illegally built three…
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Call to Action!!! Defiant village resfuses to be blocked off any longer.
Sarra, Nablus region On the 25th August, Israeli Occupation Forces entered the village of Sarra to close a roadblock that had been previously opened. The Monday before, (20th August) international activists joined Palestinian villagers in removing a road block that turned a 5 minute journey to Nablus into half an hour. There was to be…
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Religious Fervor Induced Over Theft of Palestinian Land
22/08/07 From August 18th, 2007 through to the 22nd, international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) in the Susiya region noticed an increase of activity on Palestinian land. The land in question, belonging to a family in the region, has been arbitrarily declared by the military as a “special security area,”. The essential meaning being that Palestinians…
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Humanism or Collaboration? Palestinian Police Saves Israeli Soldier In Jenin
27th August 2007 In the early afternoon the Palestinian security forces returned an Israeli soldier who is understood to have become lost in the streets of Jenin. At about 1.30 pm a single Israeli soldier, coming from Nasser street, entered the city center of Jenin. Eye witnesses reported that he was driving a civilian car,…