Tag: Settlement

  • Sheikh Jarrah in need of more international presence

    13 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In the early hours of September 12th, local illegal settlers in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, torched and destroyed a protest tent frequented and inhabited by locals and international volunteers and observers in the midst of increased Israeli settler violence and aggression. The tent sat between an…

  • Israeli settlers set fire to a house-tent in the Palestinian village of Susiya

    10 September 2011 | Operation Dove and Christian Peacemaker Teams [Note: According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Hague Regulations, the International Court of Justice, and several United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements and outposts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Most settlement outposts, including Havat Ma’on (Hill 833), are considered illegal also under…

  • Grazing on tragedy and the promises of scripture in South Hebron Hills

    1 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The army is establishing two virtual lines for each of the settlements that are near a Palestinian village. The first line, if crossed by Palestinian demonstrators, will be met with tear gas and other means for dispersing crowds. The second line is a “red line,” and…

  • Raids continue in Hebron, 2 arrested

    27 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Like every Saturday, today  a guided Zionist tour passed through the divided old city in Hebron, also referred to as Al Khalil by Palestinians. The tour was escorted by 20 Israeli soldiers and led to a couple of Palestinian arrests without clear justification. Around 4pm the…

  • “Price tag” campaign a pattern more than a phenomenon

    15 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The so called “price tag” campaign is regarded to be a product of the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar, yet the price tag to Israeli occupation and fanatical land grabbing is much more a general concept, aligned with the policy and practice of Israel let alone…