Tag: Settlement
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Armed settlers harass the villagers of Qusra, a village south east of Nablus in the West Bank
14 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Saturday June 11, six or seven armed settlers accompanied by the Israeli military entered the Palestinian village of Qusra and harassed villagers. Before they escaped they threw stones at a village truck smashing the side glass and cracking the windscreen. At approximately 5.00pm, the Imam of the…
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Activists from across Europe gather to build the campaign against Agrexco
9 June 2011 | Stephanie Westbrook This past weekend in the Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign…
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Second settler arson attack on Madama in a week
3 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Thursday June 2 at about 1pm, the villagers of Madama were again victims of a settler arson attack on their land. According to Samed Hamad, a 15 year old Palestinian who saw the incident, settlers from the nearby illegal settlement Yizhar, set fire to a crop Field…
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Roof destroyed on farm property near Etzion settlement
2 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On the morning of Wednesday May 18th, Mohammed, arrived at his farm to find the roof of his farm buildings had been removed and the materials taken away from the property during the night. The farm is situated directly between Etzion settlement and a military police base, South…
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Settler arson attack on the village of Madama
01 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Monday 30 May at 4pm, the villagers of Madama reported that a fire had been started by seven to eight settlers in one of the village’s wheat fields. The field was close to the place where less than a week ago, Hamad Jaber Qut – a 66…
