Category: Reports
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Israeli army build earth-mound “by mistake”
On the afternoon of the 5th July, the Israeli army built an earth mound blocking the only entrance to the village of At Tawamin in the southern hills of Hebron. Just in time international and Israeli activists showed up whereupon the soldiers claimed, “it was a mistake”. Half an hour later the earth mound was…
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Day three of the siege of Ni’lin
After yesterday’s turbulence, the Israeli army drew into the village of Ni’lin at around 2am this morning, the 6th of July. They threw sound-bombs, shot rubber-coated steel bullets in the air and pointed searchlights into the windows while snipers took position. At about 5am they declared a curfew through mega-phones and made a lot of…
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Palestinian farmer kidnapped, bound and abused by settlers
On the 5th of July, Palestinian farmer Medhat Abu Karsheh, 30 years old, was attacked on his land by armed settlers from the illegal outpost of Asaeel, south of Hebron. Abu Kersheh was kidnapped and bound to a pole for several hours in the burning sun next to the outpost. Settlers brutally battered him and…