Tag: Farmers

  • IMEMC: Settlers torch farmlands near Ramallah

    18 June 2011 | IMEMC, Saed Bannoura After a recent burning of its mosque, a group of extremist Israeli settlers torched on Friday Palestinian farmlands planted with wheat in the Al Mogheer village, north of the central west bank city of Ramallah. The settlers burnt the land in broad daylight and the fires consumed most of…

  • Biddu demonstrates against apartheid

    10 June 2011| Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The village of Biddu held a demonstration this week demanding access to their farmlands and a end to the Separation Wall in their village. In 2004, four demonstrators were shot dead by live ammunition in a similar demonstration. Roughly 50 people gathered near an Israeli placed gate at…

  • Guardian: Israel accused after Palestinian boys burned by mystery canister

    3 June 2011 | The Guardian Military experts say unidentified devices found in West Bank may have contained outlawed white phosphorus. The Israeli army has been accused of leaving dangerous munitions near Palestinian homes after two boys were seriously burnt when they picked up a mysterious silver canister which exuded toxic white fumes. A second…