Tag: Settler violence

  • Residents of Deir Jreer and Silwad resist occupation and settlement expansion

    10th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Deir Jreer and Silwad , Occupied Palestine By Team Ramallah At around 9 am today, 150 Palestinians, accompanied by International activists, went to Deir Jreer lands to construct a new road so that local farmers could reach their lands more easily. Two bulldozers flattened the path from the…

  • Qabalan and Talfit show their lives under occupation

    9th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Talfit and Qalaban, Occupied Palestine Israeli occupation  has created different problems for Talfit and Qabalan. Talfit is proud of its history and wants to protect it from Israeli army night incursion that seeks to appropriate it, as Qalaban struggles to provide water to its population. Talfit is a…

  • Settlers use rocks and sharp tools to attack 50 and 65 year-old farmers in Beit Furik

    7th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Beit Furik, Occupied Palestine by ISM Nablus Two olive farmers from the village of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, are recovering from head wounds in a near-lethal attack by colonial-settlers. Although both survived, they are in need of daily check-ups at a clinic in Nablus and are afraid…

  • Villages of Urif, Burin and Asira violently attacked by settlers

    1st May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus, Occupied Palestine By Team Nablus Yesterday Israeli settlers from the Illegal settlement of Yizhar set fire to the fields of Asira al Qibliya, Burin and Urif as well as attacking the school and many homes in the villages, all while the Israeli Military and Border Police provided…

  • Palestinian villages protest together against illegal settlement outpost

    26th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Silwad, Occupied Palestine Around six hundred Palestinians along with a small number of international and Israeli activists participated in today’s demonstration in the lands between Silwad and Deir Jreer, in protest against both settler violence and settlement expansion. A new illegal outpost of Ofra settlement consisting of several…