by IMEMC and Agencies, Tuesday 19th September Khalil Nawaja, in his 70s, was attacked with sticks and pipes Monday evening by a group of seven Israeli settlers with their faces covered. An Israeli soldier was escorting the settlers and did ...
Read More »More Land Confiscation in Bethlehem and Hebron districts
by Hugh The ghettoization of the southern part of the West Bank has escalated recently with confiscation orders being issued for the Apartheid Wall, settler-only roads and the expansion of settlements. Last Friday an order for the confiscation of a ...
Read More »Bedouin Family Suffers From Israeli Settler Violence
by Douglas 16th September 2006: A Bedouin family near the village of Susia was visited today by a group of internationals and Palestinians working for the PSP (Palestine Solidarity Project) and ISM. An illegal Israeli settlement has been built to ...
Read More »Farmer Picks Grapes While Harassed by Armed Israeli Colonist Militia
by the Palestine Solidarity Project Abu Ayash and his family have owned and tended their land for around 100 years but are now facing increasing violence from the inhabitants of the nearby and ever expanding Israeli settlement Karme Zur. On ...
Read More »You and Whose Army?
by Sholmo Bloom. Journal entry providing further insight to a previously published report on the same incident. It’s Shabbat, the Jewish holy day, also the day when the settlers cause the most trouble in Tel Rumeida. I was sitting on ...
Read More »Israeli Colonists Assault Palestinian, HRW and Steal Camera
by the Tel Rumeida Project and ISM Hebron At approximately 2pm on September 9th, 2006, six young settler men, between the ages of 16 and 19, moved down Shuhada Street, in Tel Rumeida, from the neighborhood checkpoint towards Beit Hadassah ...
Read More »Haaretz: “90% of Palestinian complaints to police ‘unsolved’ “
by Avi Issacharoff, from Ha’aretz, 11th September 2006. Followed by a collection of links to ISM reports on complaints to the Israeli police from which nothing has come. A total of 90 percent of the complaints filed by Palestinians in ...
Read More »Israeli Settlers Harrass Palestinians, Soldiers Detain Human Rights Worker
by Tel Rumeida Project and ISM Hebron September 9th, 2006 Around 2pm today, while sitting on the top of the hill in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, soldiers ordered Palestinian children and Human Rights Workers (HRWs) to stop playing football in the ...
Read More »RMIT University press: “Mary’s Middle East mission”
Interview from community radio of RMIT university, Melbourne, Australia A former RMIT University lecturer has become a volunteer peacekeeper on a Middle East frontline – at 75. Mary Baxter, who lectured in statistics and mathematics from 1968 to 1996, is ...
Read More »Olive Harvest 2006
Your presence is needed for the Olive Harvest 2006 in Palestine! Palestinian communities are calling for the presence of international activists to support them in the 2006 Olive Harvest. Throughout the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian land continues to be ...
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