Tag: Hebron

  • “Shebab and Jeish” – A New ISMer’s Journal From Beit Ummar

    by Ernesto July 4th: We got into the West Bank with no hitches. Unfortunately, I did not get to visit the old city of Al-Quds or Jerusalem, like I promised folks back home I would. I will when I get the opportunity. Around a dozen of us, internationals – from the U.S., Ireland, Scotland, Sweden,…

  • Protests Against Expansion of the Kurmei Tsur Settlement Continue Today

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Palestinian landowners have been laying down in front of bulldozers that are building a fence surrounding the Kermi Tsur settlement on land belonging to Hallhul and Beit Ummar farmers every day since work started Sunday. Tuesday morning Palestinian and International peace activists were beaten and detained by the soldiers. But only the…

  • Farmer’s Land Threatened by Israeli Bulldozers in Beit Ummar

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Early this morning Israeli bulldozers came back to destroy village agricultural lands after they were blocked by the people of Beit Ummar yesterday. A group of Palestinians and internationals who went early to the lands succeeded to stop the work and push the bulldozers back. Right now, there is no work going…