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11-year-old boy detained without reason in An Nabi Saleh

25 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Today, the Israeli Border Police entered the village of An Nabi Saleh and detained an 11-year-old boy, Karim Tamimi, without reason. They came to the village in police jeeps and were dressed in uniform, but were without the normal riot weapons; nobody had been informed about their coming previously, nor knew what they were supposed to be doing in the village. Before they left, they detained Karim without giving…

January 25, 2011

CPT: Armed man kills two animals near Maghayir Al-Abeed village; Escapes to Havat Ma’on settlement

24 January 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Team In the early afternoon of 23 January 2011, an armed man killed two animals near the South Hebron Hills village of Maghayir Al-Abeed. Two teenage shepherds reported that they were watering their family’s flock at a well just above their village when a man running through the area, carrying an M-16, fired four or five shots at the dog which accompanies their flock. The shooter proceeded…

January 24, 2011

Israeli settlers lay in front of tractors; attempt to prohibit Palestinian agricultural work

23 January 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Teams At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills, West Bank – On Saturday, 22nd of January, Palestinian farmers successfully plowed fields in Khoruba valley, despite heavy harassment by settlers from the nearby settlement of Ma’on. In the early morning, about twenty farmers from At-Tuwani started sowing seed and plowing fields in Khoruba valley, southeast from At-Tuwani. Soon thereafter, five settlers arrived from nearby Havat Ma’on outpost and positioned themselves in…

January 23, 2011