Tag: Settler violence

  • Imprisoned lives: closed military zone in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron)

    Imprisoned lives: closed military zone in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron)

    30th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine It’s like living in a prison. That’s how residents describe what Israeli forces are doing to their lives in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood and Shuhada Street in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). The area was first declared a ‘closed military zone’ on 30th October 2015…

  • Settlers attack boy’s school, Israeli army traps students

    Settlers attack boy’s school, Israeli army traps students

    26th October 2016 | ISM & IWPS | Urif, occupied Palestine Last Tuesday both the IWPS team and ISM team were harvesting olives in separate areas when we received a phone call telling us that there had been trouble with settlers from the illegal settlement Yitzhar and Israeli occupation forces near the high school for…

  • Kafr Qaddum: Peaceful people under violent occupation

    Kafr Qaddum: Peaceful people under violent occupation

    25th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Last Friday I attended a demonstration in the small town of Kafr Qaddum, situated in the Northern region of the West Bank, just west of the city of Nablus. In 1974 Israel began to illegally erect settlements in the nearby Keddumin area.…

  • Protective Presence at Burin olive harvest

    Protective Presence at Burin olive harvest

    24th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus-team | Burin, occupied Palestine Today, international activists joined members of the Najjar family from the village of Burin to harvest their olives and provide a protective presence should settler colonists or Israeli forces attempt to attack and disrupt the harvesting. Thankfully, there were no violent incidents todayand the…

  • Settler attacks school-children and orders soldier to assist her

    Settler attacks school-children and orders soldier to assist her

    24th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On Monday morning, infamous Israeli settler Anat Cohen attacked a group of school-children harvesting olives near their school in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). She then ordered the soldier to not only evict the students and teachers from the area, but assist in her…