Category: Reports
-
This Week in Palestine: August 29 – September 4
Compiled by Women for Palestine The following information has been obtained from various sources, notably the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, the Electronic Intifada, the International Middle East Media Centre, Ramallah Online and others. NORTHERN GAZA Wednesday, 31 August 2005 Israeli soldiers arrested two Palestinian children from the northern part of the Gaza Strip whom…
-
Soldiers in Bil’in
ISM Media Office At 2:30 am, two jeeps and 20 soldiers invaded Bil’in, taking photos and walking through the village. They went to a family’s home and asked questions. In addition, they stopped Abdullah, who had gotten up to investigate, and asked him what was going on in Bil’in. The soldiers also asked the two…
-
Tel Rumeida – Stones & Struggle
By Joe Carr The Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron is a major flashpoint of tension between Palestinians and Israeli colonial settlers. Around forty Israeli soldiers protect over sixty of the most racist and violent of Israeli settlers, forcing over one thousand Palestinians (whose families have lived in Tel Rumeida for hundreds of years) to live…
-
Settlers and Shepherds
by Greta B Saturday, September 3, the day after the demonstration in Bil’in, two of us boarded a bus bound for Hebron, a town of 130,000 Palestinians, 600 lunatic settlers, and thousands of soldiers and police to ‘guard’ the settlers. Arriving at noon on Saturday, the day most settlers run rampant over everyone, we were…
-
School, stones and settlers
by Greta B It was the children’s second day of school in the old city of Hebron. We had been asked to accompany them to prevent settler children from stoning small boys and girls. Settlers had gone on a rampage yesterday, stoning us, the police and even the soldiers as they came down their ‘settler…