Category: Reports

  • Tree planting in East Hebron village

    by ISM Hebron, March 11th Human rights workers (HRWs) from Tel Rumeida were asked to accompany a farmer and help him plant trees on land near Bani Na’im east of Hebron. The tree planning was organized by the Centre for Democracy in Hebron, working with Wa’ad. The land has three large water pools constructed by…

  • Jaffa house demolition prevented, threat still pending

    by Anarchists Against the Wall, March 11th A massive demolition wave was about to begin today with the destruction of a building that is home to a family of five. The family was able to get a judge to issue a 14-day injunction early in the morning, after spending the night barricaded in the house…

  • Tree planting as popular resistance in the Jordan Valley

    by Jamil al-Husni It is surely a celebration. Everyone is bustling about, preparing for the day’s activities. But it is different than a typical celebration. Instead of carrying brightly colored drinks and holding plates of food, people are carrying shovels and pick-axes to plant seedlings as part of a plan to grow trees throughout the…

  • Volunteers rebuild demolished homes – An Appeal

    by the ISM media team, March 11th The rebuilding effort described below requires finances that the local Palestinians, impoverished by the ongoing siege, do not have. The materials for the rebuilding were bought on credit so that the villagers could live in houses again as soon as possible – they had been living in tents…

  • Hebron settlers trespass in Palestinian family’s olive orchard

    by ISM Hebron, March 10th For the second time this week settlers from Hebron broke into and trespassed in an olive orchard belonging to a Palestinian family in Tel Rumeida. On neither occasion did the Hebron police or the IOF take any action against the trespassers. On Wednesday afternoon a settler woman with four children…