Tag: Bracha Settlement
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One year after killings: Iraq Burin continues its struggle
By Jonas Webber 31 July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Three days before the start of Ramadan, the small mountainside town of Iraq Burin was attacked by Israeli settlers from the illegal colony of Bracha. The attackers descended from the settlement at 12:30 a.m. and were soon followed by the Israeli military, shooting…
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Mapping a pattern of Israeli violence in Burin
13 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The pattern of settler and military invasion of Burin, a village near Nablus, is what locals and internationals are mapping to brace themselves for more property damage, violence, and threats by nearby illegal settlements and hardcore adherents to the volatile “Price Tag Campaign.” If the pattern…
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Planting hope and natural resistance in Burin
by Jonas Weber 4 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 4th of February International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) attended the replanting of 50 olive trees on the hillsides above the village of Burin, outside of Nablus. The planting went without disturbances from the surrounding…
