Tag: Closed military zone
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Wasteland in al Walajeh: Israeli military destruction of farmland
7 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Tuesday September 6th local Palestinians from the village of Al Walajeh gathered with international activists to protest the building of the illegal separation barrier as well as the destruction of ancient olive trees. The demonstrators succeeded in halting the razing of Palestinian land for approximately one…
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Beit Ommar harvests despite Israeli threats
15 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On June 14th 2011 a Beit Ommar farmer reported that he was “ordered” to leave his farm land by an armed security guard from the adjacent Karmei Tzur settlement. The guard apparently used a dog to drive the farmer and his family from the land. Settlers had also recently…
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American woman hospitalized with head injury and three international activists arrested in West Bank protest
1 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Sandra Quintano, An American 60 year-old women working with the Michigan Peace Team, was evacuated to an Israeli hospital this afternoon, after Israeli soldiers caused her a serious head injury as they demolished a protest tent in the West Bank village of Izbet al-Tabib near Qalqilya. A Swede…
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Activists demonstrate and work land, despite Israeli military harrasment
24 April 2011 | Palestine Solidarity Project On Saturday, April 23, eight Israeli activists and 24 international volunteers joined residents of Beit Ommar for an action near Karmei Tsur organized by the Beit Ommar National Committee Against the Wall and Settlements. The international contingent included volunteers from the Palestine Solidarity Project and International Solidarity Movement,…
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Women and elderly taken in the latest Awarta raids
07 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement At approximately 10.00pm last night the army once again entered the village of Awarta, throwing sound-bombs into the streets and declaring it a closed military zone, putting the residents under house arrest. This time the army arrested over 200 people, amongst them women and the elderly. The arrested…