FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The village of Jabaa will hold two non-violent direct actions against the theft of their land by Israeli settlers and soldiers this weekend. A month ago, close to a thousand of the village’s olive trees were uprooted ...
Read More »Tel Rumeida, Hebron: Recent Settler Attacks
29th May 2006. Tel Rumeida, Hebron 5:30 pm, Shuhada St, near Bet Haddasah settlement Four settler children were throwing stones at a Palestinian home. The two youngest were less than four years old and the older two were between 7 ...
Read More »Beit Ummar Plans a De-fence Action on their Lands
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Last night settlers from the Efrat settlement put a fence around 20 dunums of land belonging to Samir Al-Allamah of Beit Ummar. They have also put up tents inside the fence. People of Beit Ummar with international ...
Read More »Q: What if you live in Tel Rumeida and you have a heart attack ?
A: You die. By Shlomo Bloom I had a pretty bad case of stomach flu for the last few days and was reluctant to even try to go to the doctor because it meant leaving Tel Rumeida on foot, as ...
Read More »Palestinian Buildings Destroyed by IOF in Beit Ummar
by Lee and Zadie Settler carries gun as they bike through Beit Omar Last Thursday, May 24, we visited Beit Ummar, which is a village of 20,000 just south of Bethlehem’s large settlement block that includes Gush Etzion. The main ...
Read More »More Settler Attacks on International Volunteers in Tel Rumeida, Hebron
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Youth from the Tel Rumeida settlement spat on, beat, assaulted, and stoned human rights workers from Canada, Denmark and Sweden yesterday (May 27, 2006). In three separate attacks on internationals and Palestinians the kids were encouraged by ...
Read More »Villagers of Jab’a to Work Their Land After Settler Vandalism
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Over two days, Thursday the 25th and Friday the 26th of May, the villagers of Jab’a, south-west of Bethlehem will attempt to access and work their land, from 9am till 3pm.The villagers will bring agricultural equipment to ...
Read More »How Many Escorts Does it Take to Get 3 Children Home?
“When are we going to get a reality show in Tel Rumeida?” by Shlomo Bloom HRWs (the two women in vests) try to escort Palestinian kids (left) through a razor wire fence while settlers (background) and Israeli activists (foreground) look ...
Read More »Successful Land-Access Action in Beit Omar
Sunbula’s Journal: “Settler Brats and Weed Pulling” 20th May: From Jerusalem to Beit Omar, you need to change taxis three times in order to get there, partly because of two Israeli checkpoints. It is a small village outside Hebron (al-Khalil) ...
Read More »Successful Wire Cutting Action in Beit Omar
Today, May 17, two international and one Israeli human rights activists joined a small group of Palestinian farmers in their non-violent action of cutting up 50 meters of a 500 meter long barbed wire fence. A fence the Israeli army ...
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