Tag: Hebron

  • 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, 25 dunums in size, has been annexed and enclosed by the settlement. This section of…

  • 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 Palestinian cars from accessing the settler-only road will have the effect of preventing the villagers…

  • 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 to prepare for the construction of the Wall, which will confiscate 600 Dunams, or roughly…

  • 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 and 8 years of age. A Danish Human Rights Worker (HRW) approached the Israeli soldier…

  • 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 and Israeli activists plan to remove the fence from Al-Allamah’s property tomorrow at 8:30am. For…