Tag: Settlement expansion

  • Home demolition in Jerusalem: “They want our land. We need help to protect it.”

    Home demolition in Jerusalem: “They want our land. We need help to protect it.”

    1st April 2015 | Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine Nureddin Amro and his brother Sharif Amro and their families were awakened at 5:30 am by over a hundred Israeli soldiers who came to demolish their home in the Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Both men are blind. The brothers live with their…

  • Big turn out and high spirits at Wadi Fukin Land Day olive tree planting and protest

    Big turn out and high spirits at Wadi Fukin Land Day olive tree planting and protest

    31th March 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al Khalil Team | Wadi Fukin, Occupied Palestine On Monday March 30th about two hundred people commemorated Land Day in the village of Wadi Fukin. The protest, which involved planting olive trees was a response to Israeli theft of village land. After midday prayer around two hundred Palestinians and internationals…

  • Israeli forces arrest two shepherds in the South Hebron Hills

    Israeli forces arrest two shepherds in the South Hebron Hills

    5th March 2015 | Operation Dove | South Hebron Hills, Occupied Palestine On the morning of February 28, Israeli police arrested two Palestinian shepherds as they grazed their flock in the valley of Umm Zeitouna near the Israeli settlement of Ma’on. In late morning the security chief of Ma’on settlement and Israeli soldiers arrived in Umm Zeitouna valley…

  • Israeli settlers cut 36 olive trees in the South Hebron Hills

    Israeli settlers cut 36 olive trees in the South Hebron Hills

    22nd February 2015 | Operation Dove | South Hebron Hills, Occupied Palestine On the morning of February 20, Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills awoke to find that 36 olive trees had been cut or seriously damaged during the night, probably by Israeli settlers. The 25 year-old trees, owned by the Hushiy family from Yatta, were located near the village…

  • Open Shuhada Street, demand Palestinian demonstrators

    Open Shuhada Street, demand Palestinian demonstrators

    21th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On February 20, Israel forces threw at least thirty stun grenades and ten tear gas grenades at a peaceful Palestinian protest. Residents of occupied Hebron (Al-Khalil) were demonstrating against the closure of Shuhada Street, a former economic centre in Al-Khalil. The street, running through the middle of…