Tag: Jenin

  • Settlers attempt large-scale assault on Palestinian village

    Settlers on Wednesday from the illegal Israeli settlement of Sanur near Jenin — due to be evacuated as part of Israel’s “disengagement” plan — attempted to launch an assault on the Palestinian village of Assa’sa, clashing with the Israeli soldiers engaged in the evacuation. The clashes were witnessed by volunteers from the International Solidarity Movement.…

  • Threats and worry in al-Asa’asa on the eve of Israeli disengagement

    by Lee Al-Asa’asa is a village of 500 situated right next to the settlement of SaNur. Radical anti disengagement settlers from all over the West Bank, many from Hebron, have camped out at SaNur, surrounding the small military settlement with tents. Worry and anxiety about what these 280 settlers are planning to do is growing…

  • Settlers hold Palestinians hostage as Northern West Bank pullout deadline looms

    Hundreds of pro-settlement Israelis have flocked to the area around Jenin to protest the dismantling of four small settlements scheduled to be part of Israel’s disengagement plan for the northern part of the West Bank. Not exactly what you’d call a peaceful demonstration. The group, numbering in the hundreds are flocking to settlements that have…