Tag: Arson Attack
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Settlers burn ISM tent in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah
14 September 2011 | The Alternative Information Center At about 2am on Monday, 11 September, settlers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah burnt to the ground an International Solidarity Movement tent that had been established to monitor and prevent settler violence in the neighborhood. The tent, which thankfully was empty at the time…
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Sheikh Jarrah in need of more international presence
13 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In the early hours of September 12th, local illegal settlers in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, torched and destroyed a protest tent frequented and inhabited by locals and international volunteers and observers in the midst of increased Israeli settler violence and aggression. The tent sat between an…
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Israeli settlers set fire to a house-tent in the Palestinian village of Susiya
10 September 2011 | Operation Dove and Christian Peacemaker Teams [Note: According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Hague Regulations, the International Court of Justice, and several United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements and outposts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Most settlement outposts, including Havat Ma’on (Hill 833), are considered illegal also under…
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Yitzhar settlers violently crash Burin wedding, military watches
6 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank While villagers were celebrating a wedding in the small village of Burin, Israeli arsonists from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar seized the opportunity to set ablaze olive groves, destroying over 200 olive trees. On September 5th at 5 AM, locals in the village of Burin and other surrounding…
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Settler arson attack in the village of Burin
30 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Thursday 30 June at 11:00 AM, the villagers of Burin reported that a fire was started by a group of settlers in one of the village´s crop field in the hills. According to a villager who witnessed the events, Walid M. N. noted that before the fire…
