Tag: Settlement
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PCHR strongly condemns Israeli plans to confiscate 12,000 donums of Palestinian land in order to link the Illegal “Ma’ale Adumim” and “Qedar” settlements
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 4 May 2009 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the Israeli Ministry of the Interior’s decision to expand the illegal West Bank settlement of “Ma’ale Adumim” and to confiscate 12,000 donums (12 million square meters) of Palestinian land. In the context of policies aimed to establishing a…
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Palestinians demonstrate against Susiya settlement expansion
Christian Peacemaker Teams 5 May 2009 Over one hundred Israeli and Palestinian members of Combatants for Peace gathered peacefully in the Palestinian village of Susiya on 5 May to mark the installation in the village of solar panels and a wind turbine which will provide electricity to the Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills.…
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Palestinian youth shot by Israeli settlers while working his land
27 April 2009 On Monday, the 27th of April, 17-year-old Mohammad Farraj was shot by Israeli settlers while working his lands in Madama, southeast of the city of Nablus. At around 12:00pm, Mohammad was alone picking almonds on his land near the illegal Israeli settlement of Yizhar. At least one settler drove up along the…
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Palestine’s Holocaust museum
Dania Yousef | Al Jazeera 30 April 2009 In a small anonymous home in the West Bank, a Palestinian academic has set up a project which is almost unheard of in the Occupied Territories. Hassan Musa is the curator of a museum exhibition dedicated to the Jewish Holocaust in Europe. The cracked white walls of…
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Azzun cut off from Palestinian infrastructure
International Women’s Peace Service 18 April 2009 The status quo of Azzun – a town with 12.000 inhabitants – is miserable and is getting worse in the distant future. Three big settlements were partly built on Azzun land so that the current city center is now circumscribed from the east, west and north western side.…