Tag: Beit Ummar

  • Two Palestinians shot during settler riot in Saffa

    Palestine Solidarity Project 2 May 2009 For three days in a row settlers from the right-wing extremist settlement Bet Ayn have entered the land of Khirbet Saffa, an area of Beit Ommar Municipality, shooting at Palestinian homes and damaging agricultural land. On Friday, May 1, approximately 20 settlers set fire to fruit trees belonging to…

  • Two elderly farmers attacked by Israeli settlers in the southern West Bank

    Palestine Solidarity Project 26 April 2009 On April 26th at 1:15pm, Israeli settlers beat two elderly Palestinian farmers with stones and sticks while they were working their lands close to Bet Ayn settlement, located in the southern West Bank.  The attack occurred shortly after Israeli soldiers, having observed the two farmers, left the area.  They…

  • Eleven shot, one in critical condition after settler rampage in Saffa

    Palestine Solidarity Project 8 April 2009 Saffa, a village sandwiched between Sourif and Beit Ommar and home to just over 2000 residents, has been the site of overwhelming Israeli military and now settler violence in the last week.  Using the death of a teenaged settler on April 2 as a precursor (there has been no…