Qawawis, 4th June 2006: About thirty inhabitants of the small Palestinian village of Qawawis and the neighbouring villages of Jatta and Al-Twane gathered in Qawawis this morning at around 9 am. They were joined by three internationals from ISM and ...
Read More »A Quiet Shabbat in Tel Rumeida…
by Shlomo Bloom One of the Palestinians said today that he thought most of the settlers were in Kiryat Arba and there were very few of them on the street so there was hardly any trouble. At about 3pm, three ...
Read More »Qawawis Demands a Gap
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tomorrow, Sunday morning villagers will lie down along the route of the wall demanding the a gap is left for them to be able to pass through. The villagers of Qawawis woke up Wednesday morning to workers ...
Read More »Beit Ummar Farmers Struggle to Work Their Land
by Zadie Susser We visited the land of Samer Shahdah Abu Asara, a Beit Ummar farmer who owns land directly next to the illegael Israeli settlement of Efrat. In part of his land he used to grow grapes. Another part, ...
Read More »Cementing Apartheid in the South Hebron Hills
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The villagers of Qawawis woke up Wednesday morning to workers building a meter-high cement wall along the road that runs through their land between the illegal Israeli settlement of Susya and Hebron. The mini-wall designed to keep ...
Read More »Villagers of Jabaa to Reclaim Their Land: Thursday and Friday
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 ...
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