Tag: Settlement

  • Sheikh Jarrah: another day sleeping under the sky

    Alternative Information Center 6 August 2009 The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, housing about 500 Palestinians in East Jerusalem is under siege. Armed forces have been stationed here since early Sunday morning when the Hannoun and Gawi families were forcibly evicted from their homes by as many as 500 police officers. Now it’s a waiting game.…

  • Israeli settlers arson Palestinian land in al-Bueri

    2 August 2009 Settlers occupying an illegal outpost near al-Bueri in Hebron District set alight four fields of grape-vines belonging to local Palestinian families just weeks before the grape harvest season is due to begin. On Saturday residents raised the alarm as the blaze began to spread shortly after midday on land owned by the…

  • Israeli soldiers harass Susiyan herder

    1 August 2009 Yesterday while grazing his sheep, a Palestinian shepherd in Suseya near Yatta, was harrassed and threatened by two Israeli soldiers from a nearby military outpost. Jamal suffers daily from this type of harrassment on his own land. The soldiers forced him off his own land. Shortly before Jamal was due to take…

  • Israeli settlers arson Palestinian land in al-Bueri

    2 August 2009 Settlers occupying an illegal outpost near al-Bueri in Hebron District set alight four fields of grape-vines belonging to local Palestinian families just weeks before the grape harvest season is due to begin. On Saturday residents raised the alarm as the blaze began to spread shortly after midday on land owned by the…

  • Militant Jewish settlers set up 11 outposts in the occupied West Bank

    Rachel Shabi | The Guardian 28 July 2009 Israeli settler groups have set up 11 new outposts in the occupied West Bank, in a direct rebuttal of mounting US calls to freeze settlement activity. Young Jewish groups are reported to have set up the structures – mostly tents and huts on hilltops – in the…