Tag: Hebron

  • 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) past Bethlehem. An international presence was needed there today in order to help the farmers…

  • 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 illegally had set up the previous day on Palestinian owned land. Together with the two…

  • Canberra Times: “The Other Aussie Heros”

    posted in the Canberra Times May 18th Every Friday for the last fifteen months Palestinian farmers from the West Bank village of Bil’in and their Israeli and international supporters have marched out of the village to reach their lands on the other side of the “Separation Barrier” Israel is building to confiscate 500 acres of…

  • Three Non-Violent Demonstrations this Weekend: Bil’in, Beit Omar, Shofat Camp

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This Friday, the Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Shofat refugee camp, near Jerusalem, will all hold non-violent demonstrations against the Israeli occupation. Beit Omar will hold their demonstration on Saturday, not Friday as stated in a previous release. In Bil’in the demonstration is against the apartheid barrier, in Beit Omar against an…

  • Palestinian Village to Hold Demonstration Against Israeli Land-Grab

    IMPORTANT: This action will take place on SATURDAY and NOT on Friday as was incorrectly mentioned in a previous version of this press release. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 9 am this Saturday villagers from Beit Omar in the Hebron region of the West Bank, joined by Israeli and international supporters, will hold a non-violent demonstration…