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Israeli forced demolish tent village in the South Hebron Hills
7 May 2011 | Christian Peacemaker Teams On Friday, May 6, the Israeli military declared the area of Amniyr, a Palestinian village south of Yatta, a closed military zone and chased away the families who own the land, after demolishing structures and trees on the land the day before. The demolitions at 5 a.m. on Thursday, May 5, when the military destroyed six shacks and uprooted 150 olive trees in Amniyr. On Friday, the Palestinians of…
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Bedouin hamlet destroyed for 3rd time
5 May 2011 | Maan News Women of the Bedouin herding hamlet of Khirbet Amniyr sat on the earth and watched Israeli forces demolish their 12 tent homes for the third time on Thursday morning. The women said they were waiting for the soldiers to leave so they could rebuild their tent homes and once again re-establish their lives and livlihoods. Amniyr, south of Yatta in the southern West Bank, is said to be located in…
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Palestinian women smuggled into Israel for 6th time
4 May 2011 | Palestinian Solidarity Project Earlier this week, a group of 12 Israeli women smuggled 8 Palestinian women and 4 children into Israel, in defiance of Israeli law. The trip was an act of civil disobedience intended to spark debate about Israel’s system of segregation that denies Palestinians access to most of historic Palestine. This was the 6th trip the group has organized in the past year. The group assembled in the West Bank,…
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