Tag: Settlement expansion
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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…
