Tag: Settlement

  • Between Qaryut and Jaloud: systematic ethnic cleansing

    By Maria Erdely 30 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Derar Ammer’s family has owned the land they live on since 1936. He is in possession of the papers that state that this land and the home his ancestors built on it is rightfully his, which date back to the British mandate. Nevertheless,…

  • Hebron: Israeli settlers occupy Palestinian home

    By Sunny 30 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Wednesday, May 23, a group of Israeli settlers forcefully occupied the home of a Palestinian family near the illegal Tel Rumeida colony in the Palestinian city of Hebron. In an incident that lasted 3 hours, settlers forced their way into the house and…

  • Urif: Israeli settlers attack village, Palestinian shot in abdomen

    By Tete Tele 26 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On May 26, the village of Urif, south of Nablus, was attacked by Israeli settlers from the illegal Yitzhar settlement. Extensive amounts of agricultural land belonging to Urif were burned and settlers threw stones and shot live ammunition at civilians from the village.…

  • Two Palestinians arrested as Israeli settlers forcefully enter their property

    By Alex Sweden 28 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday, May 25, illegal Israeli settlers drove into the village Lubban ash-Sharqiya where they attempted to forcefully enter a family’s home. When Israeli soldiers and policemen arrived at the scene they joined the settlers, supporting’ them whilst they tried to enter the…

  • Activists seal off settlement in solidarity with hunger strikers

    Activists seal off settlement in solidarity with hunger strikers

    13 May 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Protesters blocked the entrance to the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, meters away from one of Israel’s main interrogation centers in the West Bank. Two protesters were arrested. 50 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists blocked the entrance of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement today, in support of the Palestinian prisoners’…