Tag: Settlement
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Settlers, farmers, soldiers, internationals
Max Blumenthal | Mondoweiss On Saturday I traveled to the South Hebron Hills, to the Palestinian village of Safa, with an Israeli group called Ta’ayush that works to protect Palestinian farmers from settler violence and documents the proliferation of illegal settlements (Ta’ayush is Arabic for partnership). Things were peaceful when we arrived in the verdant…
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Israeli barrier bites into Palestinian village
Ivan Karakashian | Reuters 18 May 2009 Israel’s land barrier is slowly destroying the fabric of this Palestinian village of Christians and Muslims in the West Bank, setting a prime example of why the United States wants settlements to stop. One third of Aboud’s open space has been turned into a buffer zone. Hundreds of…
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Israel begins new settlement, despite U.S. opposition
Ha’aretz 18 May 2009 Israel has begun constructing a new settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, Army Radio reported. The move comes on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, despite Western calls for Israel to halt its settlement activity. Tenders…
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Palestinian farmers and internationals prevented from working their land by Israeli army
15th May 2009 On the morning of the 15th, a group of international and Israelis helped the al-Jabari family to clear their lands in readiness for planting a new crop. The al-Jabari family’s land is located between the two illegal Israeli settlements of Kiryat Arba and Giv’at HaAvot in the Hebron district of the southern…
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Norwegian MP: If investment in occupation acceptable, we must revise ethics guidelines
Ma’an News Agency 15 May 2009 A Norwegian ethics committee is due to travel to Israel and the West Bank in two weeks to assess the investment of the world’s largest government pension fund, The Norwegian Government Pension Fund, in Africa Israel Investments. In advance of that visit, a delegation of seven members of the…