Tag: Hares

  • Night raids and arrests in Hares, Kifl Hares and Deir Istiya

    1st May 2013 | International Women’s Peace Service, Salfit, Occupied Palestine Yesterday night, at 21:40, an announcement was made over the mosque loudspeaker in Deir Istiya that settlers were planning an attack. Villagers were warned to stay wake and on watch for possible violence. At 22:45 IWPS began a night watch in Deir Istiya and…

  • Night raids in Haris sees 3 innocent youngsters arrested

    24 February 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Haris, Occupied Palestine At approximately 1:00 AM on Sunday morning, the 17th February 2013 as part of a wider raid on the village of Haris, near the Palestinian town of Salfit and the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel, 3 Palestinian youth Nur Atar Fareed Sultan, aged 13, Rabia…

  • Bound, blindfolded and beaten – by Israeli troops

    Ben Lynfield | The Independent 9 June 2009 Two Israeli officers have testified that troops in the West Bank beat, bound and blindfolded Palestinian civilians as young as 14. The damaging disclosures by two sergeants of the Kfir Brigade include descriptions of abuses they say they witnessed during a search-and-detain operation involving hundreds of troops…