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CPT/Operation Dove: Israeli DCO delivers demolition order for electricity pylons
At-Tuwani – On Tuesday, 28 July, members of the Israeli District Coordinating Office (DCO) – the branch of the Israeli army that administers civilian affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)- issued a demolition order to the six newly constructed electricity pylons in the village of At-Tuwani, located in the South Hebron hills. On 19 […]
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Militant Jewish settlers set up 11 outposts in the occupied West Bank
Rachel Shabi | The Guardian 28 July 2009 Israeli settler groups have set up 11 new outposts in the occupied West Bank, in a direct rebuttal of mounting US calls to freeze settlement activity. Young Jewish groups are reported to have set up the structures – mostly tents and huts on hilltops – in the […]
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Israel pays NIS 3.25 million to protester shot by Border Police
Ofra Edelman | Ha’aretz 28 July 2009 The Defense Ministry has recently paid NIS 3.25 million in compensation to Limor Goldstein, 31, who was shot in the head by Border Policemen during an anti-separation fence protest in the West Bank town of Bil’in in 2006. Goldstein filed a lawsuit against the state over disabilities incurred […]