Category: Reports
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Farmer Picks Grapes While Harassed by Armed Israeli Colonist Militia
by the Palestine Solidarity Project Abu Ayash and his family have owned and tended their land for around 100 years but are now facing increasing violence from the inhabitants of the nearby and ever expanding Israeli settlement Karme Zur. On Sunday, September 10, activists with the Palestine Solidarity Project (PSP) joined the farmer to defy…
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Israeli Colonists Assault Palestinian, HRW and Steal Camera
by the Tel Rumeida Project and ISM Hebron At approximately 2pm on September 9th, 2006, six young settler men, between the ages of 16 and 19, moved down Shuhada Street, in Tel Rumeida, from the neighborhood checkpoint towards Beit Hadassah settlement. An elderly Palestinian woman was sweeping her stoop slightly more than halfway down the…
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Israeli Settlers Harrass Palestinians, Soldiers Detain Human Rights Worker
by Tel Rumeida Project and ISM Hebron September 9th, 2006 Around 2pm today, while sitting on the top of the hill in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, soldiers ordered Palestinian children and Human Rights Workers (HRWs) to stop playing football in the street. The HRW asked the soldier what the problem was, and he replied, “You’re bothering…
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Beit Furik Demonstrate Against Closures
by ISM Nablus This morning a group of university students and other residents of Beit Furik joined in a non-violent demonstration against the early closure of the checkpoint separating them from Nablus city center. About 50 Palestinian and international protestors marched across a settler road toward the checkpoint holding placards, demanding an end to the…
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Even the Garbage is Occupied
by ISM Nablus In between the Israeli military checkpoints of Beit Iba and Shave Shomeron settlement, is the Palestinian village of Deir Sharaf. The village has 3,500 residents and is dismembered by a settler-only road, an Occupation settlement and two checkpoints. This village has been fighting a four year battle to dispose of its garbage,…