Tag: Border Police
-
CPT: Masked Israeli settlers chase schoolchildren, give directions to Border Police
8 February 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Team On the afternoon of 7 February 2011, three Israeli settlers from Havat Ma’on outpost chased a group of 12 Palestinian schoolchildren who were walking home from school. The Israeli military had failed to arrive to escort the schoolchildren, forcing the children to take a longer…
-
Settler guard murders Palestinian in East Jerusalem; police fire gas at his funeral
23 September 2010 | ISM Media On the morning of Tuesday 22 September a privately-hired Israeli settler security guard shot and killed a Palestinian man in the neighbourhood of Silwan in Palestinian East Jerusalem (Al-Quds). The killed man, Samer Sarhan, was aged 32 and had five children. Eyewitnesses say the shooting followed a verbal disagreement…
-
CPT: Israeli Border Police Demolish Water Infrastructure in Al Baqa’a Valley
Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron For the third time in 12 days, Israeli Border Police carried out demolitions in Al Baqa’a valley, a fertile farming area northeast of Hebron, along route 60. On July 19, the Israeli Border Police, with the assistance of hired laborers using heavy machinery, destroyed a cistern and removed irrigation pipes…
-
Youth break through the Wall in Jayyous
Stop the Wall 13 April 2009 Last night youth from the village of Jayyous broke through the Wall in the village. A small group then proceeded to the site where the new path is being constructed, destroying and setting fire to building materials. Occupation forces responded by raiding the village, where they remained into the…
-
Kiryat Arba settlers throw party on privately owned Palestinian land
At 1:40pm a group of international human rights workers received a call from a Palestinian man, Anan Jabouri, who lives on land he owns directly next to Kiryat Arba settlement. Jabouri told a local Palestinian resident, and member of ISM, that a large group of Israeli settlers had set up a tent on his land…
