Tag: Beit Ummar

  • Palestinian youth and five solidarity activists arrested in Beit Ommar demonstration

    20 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Beit Ommar, Southern West Bank, 1:30pm: One 8-year-old Palestinian boy named Mohammad Awad, two internationals volunteering with P.S.P., and three Israeli solidarity activists were arrested by Israeli Forces during a peaceful demonstration against Karmei Tsur, an illegal Israeli settlement built on Beit Ommar land. Beit Ommar and the…

  • Settlers set Saffa ablaze, 3 Palestinian youth arrested

    17 November 2010 | Palestine Solidarity Project Last night settlers from the Bat Ayn settlement set fire to 70 olive trees in the Saffa region of Beit Ommar. The trees belonged to the Thalji Aady family, who have been subject to frequent settler violence and military harassment. The fire was lit around 9:30 pm, and…

  • Settler sewage floods Beit Ommar

    Thousands of liters of raw sewage from the illegal Gush Etzion settlement flooded over 50 dunams of Palestinian farmland in the village of Beit Ommar last night. The sewage was pumped from a storage unit inside the settlement onto the land of the Sabarna family, flooding trees and submerging a bulldozer. As of 1 PM…

  • Weekly demonstrations: children cry as cops clash with clowns in Al Ma’asara

    1 and 2 October 2010 | ISM Media Al Ma’asara On Friday afternoon, around 50 protesters, including some 10 international and Israeli activists, gathered in the village of Al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem, to demonstrate against the theft of village land by the Gush Etzion settlement block. The protest was also a commemoration of both International Peace…

  • Weekly protests: man shot with live ammunition in Bil’in

    26 September 2010 | ISM Media Brutal suppression of the Palestinian popular struggle continues: A Palestinian man was shot in the leg with live ammunition in Bil`in, while live rounds were also fired in Ni`lin and An-Nabi Saleh, where rubber-coated steel bullets were fired at children. In Beit Ummar a Palestinian man was beaten unconscious…