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For immediate release – Olive Harvest: Settlers Injure Palestinian Farmers, Journalists and Medics and Solidarity Activists in Beita
Media enquiries: [email protected] On Saturday, November 8, Masked Israeli settlers armed with clubs attacked Palestinian farmers and solidarity activists, with many hospitalized after, in the Jabal Qamas area of Beita, south of Nablus, near the recently established Mevaser Shalom outpost, built on Beita’s confiscated land. After a few hours of successful olive harvest, a group of around 50 settlers, masked and armed with clubs and sticks, descended on the harvesters from the hillside, hurling rocks at…
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Firebombing in Al-Khalil
A trail of charcoal tire tracks are an unwelcome sight this morning in Hebron’s old city, tracing a grim path past shuttered shops and beneath wire netting that sags with the weight of rubbish, bottles, and stones thrown from above. A tailor’s shop and car were firebombed last night by Israeli colonizers in the Old City of Al-Khalil (Hebron). The attackers struck before Fajr, the early morning prayer time, leaving the shopkeeper’s livelihood in disarray. Flames…
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Israeli Occupation Forces Deny Muslims Right to Pray
On Friday, October 24, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) denied over 100 Palestinian Muslims the right to pray Duhr – or noon prayer – at the Al Ibrahimi Mosque in Al Khalil. Friday, or Juma’ah in Arabic, is the holiest day of the week in Islam. And Duhr is among the most popular times to pray communally at Al Ibrahimi, known by Jews as the “Tomb of the Patriarchs,” the place where Abraham, Sarah, and other…
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