• Attack on Child by Settlers

    Tel Rumeida, Hebron, 8.9.07 A local human rights worker reported that seven settler children and one adult attacked a Palestinian child in Hebron. The incident happened at 10 am outside Beit Hadassa settlement in Tel Rumeida, Hebron. The children were directed to beat up the victim by the adult and started punching and kicking him. An ISM human rights worker (HRW) intervened and protected the Palestinian. The boy was moved away from the settlers. At this…

  • Need for Activists in Susiya

    Last October, the IOF and settlers from the illegal Susiya settlement demolished 150 Dunums (1 Dunum=1/4 acre) of olive groves belonging to the Palestinians of Susiya. The timing was chosen with care: the trees were destroyed just before Susiya Palestinians could harvest their olives, following their Ramadan fasting. An economically starved area, the poverty-stricken Susiya residents depend on olives for income and consumption. Susiya camp is far from the public eye, and it is here that…

  • Reflections from an Irish Activist in Palestine (Part 2/3)

    Part II The border police at Al-Ibrahimiye mosque and Cave of Machnela Synagogue checkpoint evidently need serious doses of caffeine to get into harassment mode. They knock back glass after glass of Saada (black Arabic coffee), becoming gradually more vocal towards each other and Palestinian passers-by. This ultimately reaches fever-pitch, whereby the Master and Commander of the unit and one of the female officers are shouting for no apparent reason, apart from the fact that they…

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