Tag: District Coordination Office

  • Hit-and-run settler kills 15 goats

    Hit-and-run settler kills 15 goats

    By Markus Fitzgerald 20 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Monday, August 6, Mershid (19), son of Muhamad Abdalah Dawabsheh, checked for oncoming cars and started to cross the road between Nablus and Ramallah with his herd of goats. The time was approximately 5 p.m., and he was leading the herd towards the…

  • Arrests and nonviolent actions in South Hebron Hills

    26 February 2012 | Operation Dove On February 25th Palestinian men and women, elders and children, together with Israeli and international activists gathered for two demonstrations organized by the South Hebron Hills Popular Committee. The first demonstration, attended by approximately ninety people, was planned in response to twenty-nine trees being cut down during the last four months on…

  • Jerusalem: Explosions, arrests and violence as Israel clears way for settlement activity

    Jerusalem: Explosions, arrests and violence as Israel clears way for settlement activity

    by Alistair George 13 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Three Palestinians were arrested and others were detained, beaten and pepper sprayed by the Israeli military in Al-Walajeh yesterday, as villagers attempted to prevent the detonation of explosives used to widen the route for the separation wall on the village’s land. Previously, large…

  • Day 6: DCO overrules Qordoba school

    18 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On 18th October 2011 teachers from Qordoba school stood in protest at checkpoint 56 for a sixth day of resistance against the increased ‘security’ measures imposed upon them by the Israeli occupying forces. In the past week this peaceful protest has been met with an alarmingly…

  • After decade of demolitions, Susiya shepherd will continue to herd

    After decade of demolitions, Susiya shepherd will continue to herd

    11 October 2011  | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On 10 October an Israeli army jeep filled with Israeli soldiers and a representative from the District Coordination Office (DCO) drove down the dirt track roads from the neighboring military base towards the small village of Susiya. The purpose of this visit was to serve yet…