International Solidarity Movement 1 July 2010 Al Ma’asara The people of Al-Ma’asara’s again demonstrated peacefully last Friday, protesting against land seizures and settler harassment. Twenty villagers were joined by a handful of Israelis and internationals, marching from the village out ...
Read More »Civil Administration backtracks on granting Palestinians access to Bir el-Eid
Amira Hass | Haaretz 6 January 2009 The Civil Administration ordered Palestinian residents of the West Bank this week to stop erecting tents and building animal enclosures in the Bir el-Eid area – even though the state allowed them access ...
Read More »After period of daily harassment from Israeli soldiers and settlers, residents of Bir el-Eid celebrate small victories
28 December 2009 When I arrived in Bir el-Eid on 15 November 2009, it was obvious that international accompaniment was needed. There was daily harassment from soldiers and settlers. The villagers were not allowed to use the road. They were ...
Read More »Palestinians in Bir el-Eid win the right to use local road
Art (Jaber) Gish 13 December 2009 It seems that a major victory has been won regarding Palestinians using their road to get to and from town. Israeli settlers have demanded that only Jews be allowed to use the Palestinian road. ...
Read More »Notes from Area C / The right to return to the caves
Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 11 December 2009 This is a story of return, the return of Palestinians to their land in Area C. Just over a month ago, on November 8, two out of 15 families returned to Khirbet Bir ...
Read More »Letter to family and friends: Bir el-Eid, West Bank
I have now been in the village of Bir el-Eid for three weeks. This has been a great time of connecting with the people here, helping with chores with the sheep, going out in the hills with the sheep, and ...
Read More »Palestinians from Bir el-Eid continue reclaiming their land in spite of army harassment
27 November 2009 For the last 3 weeks, ISM activists have stayed with a community of cave-dwellers in Bir el-Eid, south east of Hebron, on the very border to the Negev desert. The villagers, who live off raising sheep and ...
Read More »Palestinians moving back to Bir el-Eid, a village from which they were expelled in 1999
22 November 2009 After spending a week in the modern city of Jerusalem, camping out on the street with a Palestinian family that the Israeli government had evicted from their home so that Israeli settlers could move into their house, ...
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