A woman from Sweden, Gabby, and a man from Austria, Sebastian, were kicked, pushed, jumped on, and bitten by settlers while they walked on Palestinian farmland the evening of August 8th. The internationals live in Suseya in order to accompany ...
Read More »Settlers attack Palestinians and Human Rights Workers
On August 5th, two Human Rights Workers (HRWs) from Denmark were sitting on Shuhada Street in Tel Rumeida. At around 2:45 PM a Palestinian boy, around age 15, wanted to use the stairs at the end of Shuhada Street, opposite ...
Read More »My Head Might Burst with Irony
by Alizarin J. Crimson Sometimes I feel like my head is going to burst with irony. Like walking through Arab East Jerusalem and seeing Palestinian men wearing tshirts that say: “F.B.I. anti-terrorism unit”. And I wonder if they are wearing ...
Read More »Armed Settler Militia Harrass Farmers in Beit Ummar
by Ernesto At 8:30am on Sunday, July 30th, six internationals accompanied Abu Ayyash and Yousef, both farmers, and Ahmed, a local organizer, from Beit Ummar, to spray their grapes with pesticides. Despite aggressive activity by settler militia and an Israeli ...
Read More »Israeli Military Harrassment of Human Rights Workers in Hebron Continues
On July 28th, a human rights worker (HRW) was sitting by checkpoint 56 (which is the main entrance to Tel Rumeida, Hebron from the Palestinian controlled H1 area) from about 12 noon til 3:00 in order to monitor the behavior ...
Read More »Settler Vandalism Caught on Tape
by B.B. On Wednesday, July 26th, at approximately 1:30 pm, a group of internationals went with the farmer Abu Jabber Soleiby to document the most recent damage to his land by settlers from the nearby settlement Beit ‘Ain. The settlers ...
Read More »Settlers Burn Farmer’s Land
by Harry Pockets On Wednesday, July 19, 4 volunteers from then International Solidarity Movement accompanied a farmer from the village of Al Jab’a whose fields had been burned by settlers. Al Jab’a is a small farming village located in the ...
Read More »Tel Rumeida Birthday Circus
Yehuda yells at some soldiers who don’t want us to go to the Abu Haykal house by Shlomo Bloom July 24th: Today was the 16th birthday of two girls in the Abu Haykal family who live at the end of ...
Read More »Settlers Burn Farmer’s Roof; ISM Rebuilds Despite Intimidation
Israeli Colonist Wear: tallis, tzitziyot, and masks by Harry Pockets On 22nd July, ISM activists and Israeli activists joined locals from Suseya to rebuild the roof of a farmer’s home that had been burned by neighbouring Israeli colonists. Suseya, an ...
Read More »Police Seize Palestinian IDs
by ISM Hebron, July 23 2006 5:30 Two Palestinian women from the Tel Rumeida neighborhood were on their way to visit their aunt in the hospital when the police stopped them for an ID check. Because one of the women ...
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