Tag: Settlement expansion
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Two Palestinian shepherds arrested in South Hebron Hills
8th February 2015 | Operation Dove | South Hebron Hills, Occupied Palestine On the morning of February 6, Israeli soldiers arrested two Palestinian shepherds, one of them aged sixteen. The soldiers tried to arrest another Palestinian shepherd but villagers prevented the arrest by popular nonviolent action. At about 10:40 a.m. four Palestinian shepherds were grazing their flocks…
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Olive tree planting in Kafr ad Dik
7th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr ad Dik, Occupied Palestine On the morning of February 5, ISM volunteers travelled with around 50 Palestinian activists from the Salfit area to the village of Kafr ad Dik to take part in an olive tree planting action organised by the Joint Council of Salfit…
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A Palestinian story of resistance: The Abu Haikal family
31th May 2014 | Christian Peacemakers Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine With only a sliver of their land left to protect, having their entire lot of land encircled by Israeli settlements, Faryel and Arwa Abu Haikal climbed over a pile of rubble and boulders and stopped the Israeli bulldozer from shearing further into their property, dumping their…
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A new illegal settlement is under construction
26th May 2014 |International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Kafr ad Dik, Occupied Palestine Early yesterday morning, at approximately 05:00, two drilling machines were at work in Daher Sobeh, at the top of a mountain in the eastern part of Kafr ad Dik, an area where there are many water springs. Together with the machines, there were…
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Action alert: Letter writing campaign against criminal activity in Tel Rumeida
19th May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied Palestine The Israeli occupation uses many methods to take over land – from settlements and military camps to the nature reserve and political treaties. However, the Abu Haikal family of Tel Rumeida in Al-Khalil (Hebron), faces a much more unexpected enemy: archaeologists. Currently, the family home is…
