Tag: Settlement expansion
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Fighting for the history of Tel Rumeida
17th May 2014 | International Women’s Peace Service | Hebron, 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…
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Settlers move into the Rajabi building in Hebron
13th April 2014 | Hebron Rehabilitation Committee | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On Sunday 13 April 2014 in the early afternoon, Israeli settlers with assistance from the Israeli occupation forces started moving into the so-called Rajabi building in Hebron. After seven years of litigation, on 11 March 2014, the Israeli Supreme Court handed over the building to the settlers…
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South Hebron Hills’ outpost of Havat Ma’on continues to expand. Despite documentation, Israeli officials deny knowledge of expansion
11th November 2013 | Operation Dove | At Tuwani, Occupied Palestine The Israeli outpost of Havat Ma’on (Hill 833) in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills is growing at a phenomenal rate since the beginning of October. On Saturday November 9, the activist group of Ta’ayush (an Arab and Jewish grassroots nonviolent movement) and international…
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Illegal extremist settlement of Yitzhar expands during ‘peace talks’
28th August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Asira al Qibliya, Occupied Palestine Around 80 settlers and soldiers brought diggers and steam rollers near the Asira water project and started to flatten ground on private Palestinian land. Residents fear this is the first stage in an expansion of the illegal extremist settlement of…
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Palestinian villages protest together against illegal settlement outpost
26th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Silwad, Occupied Palestine Around six hundred Palestinians along with a small number of international and Israeli activists participated in today’s demonstration in the lands between Silwad and Deir Jreer, in protest against both settler violence and settlement expansion. A new illegal outpost of Ofra settlement consisting of several…